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THE LIFE 


SURPRISING ADVENTURES 


ROBINSON CRUSOE, 


OF YORK, MARINER. 

FROM THE ORIGINAL, 


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IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 


MARY A. SCHWACOFER. 






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COPYRIGHT 

1882. 

By O. M. Dunham, 




Robinson Crusoe. 


Chapter I. 

I was born in the town of York, 
in the spring of 1632. I was the 
third son of a man of some wealth, 
and I had a good home. I was not 
bred to a trade, for my friends had 
a wish that I should learn the law as 
a means to help me through life. 
But, as I grew up, I made up my 
mind to go to sea; from a child, my 
head had been full of the sea, for 
when I was but a small boy I would 
sit, for hours at a time, on the banks 
of a small stream that was near our 
house, and dream of ships and the 


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sea. My friends did all they could 
to keep me at home, but it was of 
no use, for in the fall of 1651 I ran 
off, and soon found my' way down 
on board of a ship bound for a large 
town on the south-east coast of the 
land. When safe on board the ship 
I felt quite proud and glad, but if I 
had known all I had to pass through 
in the rest of my life I would have 
gone back home, but as I did not, I 
went on my way, and though I had 
a great deal of bad luck, God took 
care of me through it all, and taught 
me in time what was for my good. 

We had scarce left the land, when 
the wind blew up strong and kept 
up for a few days, and then a great 
storm came on, and one night I 
heard one of the men cry out, “The 


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ship has sprung aleak.” All hands 
were brought on deck, and set to 
work at the pumps. We could hear 
the ship creak, and her beams crack 
from end to end, and soon it gave 
way, and we found that we must do 
all we could to save our lives. 

We saw a ship a short way off, 
and gave them a sign, to make them 
know that we were in need of aid 
They came near to us, and sent out 
two small boats which we got into, 
and we were all soon on board the 
ship, and in a short time we were 
safe back in the town we came from, 
where we met friends who gave us 
food and clothes, as well as means to 
help us reach our homes. 

You will say that now I ought to 
have gone home, but I had both 


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clothes and means, and I was too 
proud to go back. The man who 
had lost his ship said to me, “Young 
man, you ought not to go to sea; this, 
your first trip, should be to you a 
sign that Cod will not help you if 
you do.” 

Though I knew he was right, I 
- was hurt at this, and spoke back in a 
rude way, and would not heed him, 
but thought I would try it once more. 

This time our ship was bound for 
some isles in the south. We had 
been out six weeks, and were far on 
our way, when we saw a queer ship 
full of men on our track, and we 
could see they were not friends. We 
thought we could keep clear of them, 
or, if there was need for it, fight them 
off, so we put on all our sails, but in 


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a few hours they caught up to us. 
We found they were Turks. They 
came on board of our ship, and 
though we fought them as well as 
we could, they had more men and 
guns than we, and when they had 
cut all our sails, done all the harm to 
the ship they could, put to death 
three of our men, and hurt near all 
the rest, we had to yield. 

They took us to their land, and sent 
most of the men to their King, but 
the chief of the Turks took me as his 
own prize and made a slave of me. 

This was a great change for me, 
and my heart sank with grief I had 
time now to think of my home, and 
all that the dear ones had told me, 
but it was too late now, I must do 
the best I could. At first I had to 


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work hard, but as I was young and 
quick, the chief soon took me to his 
own house to wait on him. From 
this time my whole mind was bent 
on how I could get off and be free.* 
I thought, “if the chief will take me 
with him when he goes to sea, I will 
find a way,” but this he would not 
do, for when he went to sea he left 
me home to work on his farm, and 
take care of the house, and when 
he was at home I had to fish, and 
watch his ship. 

When I had been with him two 
years he was not so strict, but would 
take me with him when he went out 
to fish. 

One day he sent me with a small 
boat to catch some fish, and I brought 
home a fine lot, which made him so 


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glad that he said some guests were 
to dine with him the next day, and I 
must go out for the fish. He sent 
me out in a small ship, with a man, 
a Moor, and a boy whose name was 
Xury. Now, I thought, this is my 
chance to get off; I will be free this 
time. I told the boy to get two guns 
and some shot, and sent the Moor 
for some tools, while I put some food 
and wine in the ship, and when we 
had all our things on board we set 
sail. When we had gone out for a 
mile, we sat down to fish, but as the 
Moor was a man I felt I could not 
trust, I would not pull up my lines, 
for I did not want him to see the fish, 
and I said to him, “There are no fish 
here, we must go out to sea,” and 
when we had gone for a league, I 


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put my arm round his waist and 
threw him far out in the sea. 

He swam up to the ship, and said 
if I would take him in, he would go 
with me, and stay all his life with me. 
I told him I did not want him, and 
bade him swim back to the shore. 
Xury swore he would be true to me, 
and as I thought I would be safe 
with him, and he might be of great 
use to me, I let him go with me. 

We had a fair wind, and in a few 
days we were a great way out of the 
Turks’ reach. As I still had some 
fear, I kept out of the way of land 
for some time, but we found we must 
go on shore to get food and drink. 

We came to a place where it was 
still, and we saw no one, and I told 
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night, but as soon as it was dark, we 
heard such barks and growls, that 
we thought we would not go on 
shore ’till morn, when Xury said, that 
if wild men or beasts came, he would 
“give them shoot gun.” He could 
talk quite well, as he had been so 
much with the white slaves that the 
Turks had. « 

In the morn, Xury said that if I 
would take the boat close up to the 
shore, and give him one of the jars 
we had with us, he would go and see 
if there were springs near by, and 
what he could find to eat. I said to 
him, “Why should you go; why not 
let me go?” 

He said, in a way full of love, “If 
wild mans come, they eat me, you 
go way.” 


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“Well Xury,” said I, “we will both 
go, and if wild mans come, we will 
kill them— they shall not eat us.” 

When we were most up to the 
land, a large beast came down to the 
edge of the shore, and gave such a 
loud roar, that Xury cried out with 
fear. I took up my gun and shot at 
him, which sent him back with a cry 
of pain. I knew I had hurt him, 
but he fled to the woods and we saw 
no more of him. 


Chapter II. 

We then brought the boat up on 
shore, but for fear some harm might 
come to it, I thought I would stay 
near by and watch it, so Xury took 


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the gun and the jar, and went off to 
the south; he soon came back with 
the jar full, and on the end of his 
gun a hare that he had shot, and 
told me with great joy that he had 
seen “no wild mans.” 

I then told Xury to cook our meal, 
and when it was done, we sat down 
and ate the hare, with some wild 
fruit he had found, and the bread we 
had left, and when we were through, 
put off to sea once more. 

As near as I could guess, the Cape 
Verd isles were not far off, and I 
made up my mind to keep close to 
the coast, in hopes that I might fall 
in with some ship which would take 
me in, and I should be with friends 
once more. 

As we went 4ip the coast, Xury, 


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whose eyes were more on the watch 
than mine, saw a huge beast that lay 
on his side near the shore. I told 
Xury, “You shall go on shore and 
kill him.” 

“Me kill! he eat me up with one 
mouth,” Xury said, in great fright. 

I thought he might do us some 
good and took up my gun and shot 
at him. It did not kill him, but 
broke his leg, at which he set up 
such a loud roar, that Xury could do 
nouorht for some time but stand and 

o 

gaze. 

He said he must have some of 
him, and told me to give him the 
axe, and he would cut off his head; 
he went on shore but he found he 
could not take his head, so he came 
back with one of his feet and a part 


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of the leg. I saw it was so large that 
I thought I would like his skin, as it 
would be of great use to me. 

Xury and I went to work at him, 
it took us both the whole day, but at 
last we got the hide off of him, and 
I let it hang for two days in the sun 
to dry. I found it nice and soft to lie 
on, and it made me a good bed. 

In one place some black men came 
down to the edge of the shore; one 
of them had a long lance and the rest 
held clubs and sticks. We were in 
need of food and drink, and I thought 
I would go up to them, but Xury 
thought from signs they made, they 
would like to kill us, and cried out 
in great fear, “No go! No go!” 

I had some of the beast we had , 
shot which I did not like to eat, so 


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I threw it to them, and made signs 
that we would like some food. When 
they saw that we did not mean to 
hurt them, one of them went off, and 
in less than half an hour came back 
with fruit, dry meat, and a kind of 
corn, but I did not know what it was, 
as we did not raise that kind in our 
part of the world. We did not know 
how we should get these things, for 
we did not want to go on shore, and 
they did not like to come to us, but 
at last they put them on the edge of 
the shore and went off; we were glad 
of this, for they were a wild set, and 
wore no clothes. 

We went on for ten or twelve days 
more, but did not meet a ship, and 
my heart was full and sad. I thought 
we would starve, and that I should 


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die, and I could not help but feel 
that it was all my own fault 

One day I gave Xury charge of 
the ship, and sat down in one end, to 
think what I should do, and how I 
could get food, as we did not dare to 
go on shore, for fear of wild men and 
beasts. I was sad, and gave up all 
hope, when all at once Xury cried, 
“A ship with a sail.” How my heart 
rose with joy, but poor Xury did not 
share it with me, he thought it was 
the Turk who had come to take us 
back. I saw that it was a large ship, 
but could not tell where it was from. 
They did not see us at first, so I took 
a small flag that I had, and made a 
waft of it, and shot off my gun for 
a sign; they did not hear the gun, 
but when they saw the smoke, they 


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brought to, and lay by for me, and 
in less than two hours’ time I came 
up with them. 

The ship was from Spain, and 
bound for the south. A Scotch man 
on board said to me, “Who are you, 
and where are you from?” 

I told him how I had run from 
the Turk, and this he told the man 
in charge, who said I must come on 
board, and took both Xury and me, 
as well as all my goods in his ship. 

I was so sick of the sea, that I 
thought, “when I reach the land I 
will stay there”; and so when the man 
said he would pay me for my boat, 
and buy Xury from me, I told him 
he could have the boat, but Xury had 
been so good to me, that I would 
not like to sell him for a slave. 


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He said, if Xury would be a good 
boy, he would set him free in a few 
years, and as I was at a loss to know 
what I should do with him, I let the 
man take him. 

In a few weeks we came to the 
coast of a large land, which lays 
south-west of my own land, and there 
I made up my mind to stay. 

The gold the man gave me for my 
boat and the things that were in it, 
was quite a large sum, and I had ten 
pounds at home with a friend, so I 
thought I would buy a farm. 

While I went to look round for 
one, I met a man whose name was 
Wells; he had some stock but not 
much gold. He thought he would 
like to buy a farm. He said to me, 
that he thought if we would join our 


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means, we could buy a large farm 
and make it pay us well. I saw that 
he was a good man and knew how 
to farm, so I sent to my friend for 
my gold, and we bought a large farm 
near the coast. 

I now saw what a help Xury would 
be to me, and I felt I had done wrong 
to part with him, for in a short time 
we had to buy two more slaves to 
help us work our farm. The friend 
who sent me my gold, sent with it 
some cloth, baize, dress goods, and 
some small wares, which I gave in 
trade to the men where we were, and 
to those who came on shore from the 
ships that went by, and in a few 
months I was in a fair way to make 
a great deal of gold. 

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Chapter III. 

All went on well for four years, our 
stock grew fast, and we were soon 
quite rich, but this kind of a life did 
not suit me, my old wish to roam 
came on, and in spite of all I had 
gone through each time I went to 
sea, 1 felt I would like to go once 
more. What more did I do here 
than I would have done at home with 
my friends, and was it for this that I 
had left them all. No! I would go 
off as soon as I could get a chance, 
and do some great thing yet. 

My kind friend who had brought 
me here had been gone for some 
time, and I felt bad that I had not 
gone with him. 


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One day while I was in this mood, 
three men came to me and said they 
would like me to take a share in a 
large slave ship they had, and go 
to sea in it. 1 told them I would 
go with all my heart, if they would 
look out for my farm, which they 
were glad to do. I made a sort of 
will, in which I told the men what 
to do with my share in the farm in 
case of my death, and made the man 
who had brought me here, and who 
was so kind to me, my heir. 

In a few days I set sail, which, 
strange to say, was just eight years 
from the day I had left home. 

We had on board six guns, and a 
crew of ten men and five boys. Our 
stock of goods was toys, beads, bits 
of glass, shells, and such odd things, 


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that we knew we could trade for 
slaves. 

We soon lost sight of land, and 
for two weeks the sea was calm, and 
the air clear and hot, and then there 
came a great change. One day there 
blew up a great gale and a fierce 
storm set in, and for three days we 
could not steer the ship, she was 
thrown round in such a way, and the 
high seas that came on us took off a 
man and a boy. In the midst of this 
one of the men said he saw land, and 
we thought we would try to reach it, 
but it was of no use, and though we 
did all we could, we could not save 
the ship, it struck on a sand bar. 
We could not move, and we could 
not stay here, for we thought the ship 
would break in two. 


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There was a small boat on the 
ship, which the mate let down, and 
we all got in, but did not have much 
hope, as the sea was so wild and 
rough, and the storm so great We 
felt that nought but God’s care could 
save us; we had gone but a short 
way, when there rose a great high 
wave that fell on our boat, and swept 
us all out into the sea. 

I was full of dread and fear, and 
thought there was no hope for me, but 
as I swam round, I saw, quite a way 
off, a piece of land, which I thought 
if I could reach I would be safe. 

With the aid of the waves I swam 
straight for it, and when there the 
first thing I. did was to thank God 
for my life, and then to look for the 
rest of the men, but they must have 


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all gone down, for I saw them no 
more, nor a sign of them, but three 
of their hats, one cap, and two shoes 
which were not mates. 

I knew it would not do for me to 
sit still here, but must get up and 
look round me, and see what kind of 
a place I was in, and as night was 
near, how and where I should sleep. 

It was too late to see much of the 
place, but not far off I found a thick 
tree like a fir, full of thorns. I thought 
I would make this do to sleep in, 
and though I saw no signs of them, 
I was full of fear of wild men and 
beasts, so I took my knife and cut 
me a sharp stick, and when it was 
dark I got up in my tree, where I 
slept as well as I think few could 
have done in my state. 


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When I woke up the next morn, 
it was quite late, and the sun shone 
bright and clear. I could see the 
ship as it lay one end up out of the 
sea, not quite a mile off, and the 
small boat, which was lost, was so far 
off I could but just see it. At noon 
the sea was calm, and the tide low, 
so that I could swim to the ship, and 
as it was warm, I took off most of 
my clothes and laid them on the sand, 
and went to the ship. 

H ere I found fresh cause for grief, 
for I saw if we had kept on board 
we would all have been safe, that is 
to say, we could all have got safe to 
the land, and I would not have been 
all that was left. At first I did not 
know how to get up on the ship, but 
when I had swam round her twice. 


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I Spied a small piece of strong rope 
that hung down on one side, and 
with the aid of that, and hard work, 
I at last got up on deck. 

You may be sure that my first 
work was to search for bread, which, 
when I had found it, I made a good 
meal off, and then I went to see what 
else there was in the ship, that I could 
take on shore. 

But how could I get them there? 
I must have a boat to do this. The 
small boat, as I have said, was too far 
off, and there was none on the ship. 
It was in vain to sit still and wish for 
what was not to be had. I found 
there were some spare yards, a mast 
or two, some large spars of wood, 
and some rope and planks. I thought 
I would go to work and see what 


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I could do with these, so I took some 
rope and put it round each of the 
spars, and flung them in the sea, and 
then I threw the planks down, and 
when this was done, I went down 
the ship’s side, and put four of the 
spars end to end, and with the rope 
I made them as'well as I could in 
the form of a raft, and laid two or 
three short planks on it. I found I 
could walk on this, but it was too 
light to bear a great weight. I then, 
with a saw I had found, cut one of 
the large masts in three lengths, and 
put them to my raft. 

This took much time and toil, but 
the fear that I would starve kept me 
up. My raft was now quite strong 
and large, and my next care was, 
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what I put on it from the serf of the 
sea. I first laid all the loose planks 
and boards I could get on it, and 
then I put on three chests which I 
had found in one of the rooms of the 
ship. I thought one of the chests 
would be just the thing for me to put 
my food in, as it would keep it dry, 
so I put in it some bread, rice, cheese, 
dry meat, and some corn, which had 
been laid by for some fowls which 
we brought to sea with us. I found 
a large case of rum, but there was 
no need to put that in the chest, so 
I put it up by the side of it. 

By this time the tide was up, and 
though the sea was calm, I saw my 
coat, vest, and shirt, which I had left 
on the sand, float off This made me 
think of some clothes, and I went 


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down in the ship, and found some 
that had been worn by the men, and 
I took all that I thought I would 
need for a time. 

In -the same room where the 
clothes were, I found what was a 
great prize to me, worth more than 
a ship full of gold would have been 
at that time, a chest with some tools 
in it. I took it down to my raft, 
whole as it was, as I did not have 
time to look through it. I then went 
for some arms. There were three 
good guns, a bag of shot, two old 
swords, an old horn, and three kegs 
of gun dust. The rest were so wet, 
that I knew they would be of no use 
to me. 


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Chapter IV. 

I put all these things on my raft, 
and then set off for the land. For a 
time my raft went well ; but as it 
was so large, and I had so much on 
it, I could not use my oars, and the 
sea was so strong, that I was in fear 
I would not reach the shore, but 
drift out from it. So I had to sit 
with my back to the chests to hold 
them up, and wait for the tide to 
come in, which it did in the course 
of an hour, and sent my raft quite 
high up on the shore, and here I 
thought I should lose all my goods, 
for it sent one end up so high, that 
I thought all the rest would fall in 
the sea, so I struck out my oars, and 


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thrust the raft off a short way, and 
then stuck the oars in the ground, 
one on each side of the raft near the 
ends, which held it down straight, 
and so that it could not move. 

When I had brought my goods 
upon the shore, I took out my pipe, 
and sat down to smoke. I thought 
of the past, of my friends at home ; I 
knew they would think me dead, and 
mourn for me. I did not see how I 
could send them word, or get off, for 
the isle I was on did not seem to 
have a soul on it. It was out of the 
way of the course of ships and trade, 
and though I could hear birds sing 
and beasts cry, still I felt I was lost 
to the world, and felt sad and sick at 
heart. 

While I sat here, a great bird flew 


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by me and I shot at it; I think it 
was the first gun that had been shot 
off on the isle, for the fowls and birds 
flew out from all sides, and set up 
loud cries of fright. The bird I took 
to be from its beak a kind of hawk, 
though its claws were not like nor 
near as large as a hawk’s; it was not 
good for food, so I threw it on the 
ground. 

What to do, or where to rest this 
night, I knew not. I did not like to 
lie on the ground; my tree was too 
far off, and I knew I must stay near 
my goods to watch them ; so I made 
a kind of hut with the chests and 
boards, and I laid down on some of 
the boards, but I did not sleep well, 
for the boards were hard, and I had 
such great fear of wild beasts. 


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The food I had brought from the 
ship I knew would last me some 
days, and I had seen some hares run 
out of the wood, where I had shot 
the fowl; still I felt I should need 
more food soon, and there was some 
in the ship which would be of great 
use to me, and I must get it on shore 
as quick as I could, for the sea was 
so strong at times I knew the ship 
could not stand long. 

The next morn, when the tide 
went out, I swam to the ship. 

My raft was so large that I left 
that on shore, and thought I would 
make a small one when I got on the 
ship. I did so, and then went to 
look through the ship. I found two 
or three bags full of nails and spikes, 
some saws and knives, and, to my 


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great joy, a stone to grind my tools 
with. 

I took all the men’s clothes I could 
find, a spare top sail, and a bed. I 
put these on my raft, and brought 
them all safe to the shore. 

I found my things just as I had 
left them. A wild cat was up on 
one of the chests; my first thought 
was to shoot her, but as she did not 
seem to mind me, I threw a piece of 
dry rusk at her, which she ate, and 
then ran off 

I then went to work to make a 
small tent of some kind, where I 
could stay and sleep, as well as store 
my goods in. I put up one with the 
sail and some poles I had cut, and 
brought in all my things that I 
thought the sun or rain would spoil. 


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I then stood all the chests and casks 
round it, and made a door of some 
boards and a chest. " When this was 
done, I spread out my bed, put my 
arms close by, and, for the first time 
since I had left the ship, I laid down 
and slept well. 

For the next six days, when the 
tide was low, I went out to the ship, 
and thought that I had found all 
that I would need, but as long as 
the ship was there, I felt that I must 
take off all that I could get. 

In one of my trips I put so much 
on my raft, that it went down, and 
threw me and my goods into the sea, 
but it did not do much harm, for I 
took most of the things out. 

One day I found some gold ; I 
said, “Oh drug! what art thou good 



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for? Thou art not worth as much 
as one of the knives in this heap,” 
I made up my mind to throw it in 
the sea, but then I thought, I may 
need this some time, so I put it up 
in a piece of sail, and laid it by in 
the tent. 

The last trip I made the wind 
blew hard, and drove me out from 
the shore; I was in fear that I would 
not reach it, but by hard work, and 
the aid of the tide, I got on land all 
safe, and I put up all my goods, for 
I knew there would be a storm. 

It blew hard all night, and the 
next morn, when I woke, I saw that 
the ship was gone. I felt sad, and 
as though I had lost a friend, but I 
knew that I had brought on shore 
all that I could use now, and so I 


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soon gave up all thoughts of her. 
As the spot my tent was on was not 
a fit place for me to live, the ground 
was so low and wet, I went out to 
search the isle, to see if I could find 
a dry place, from which I oould view 
the sea, or see when a ship came in 
sight. 

I found a plain on the side of a 
hill, with a large rock near by ; a 
hole was worn in the rock like a door 
to a cave, and there was a flat green 
in front of this hole. I thought I 
could fix the place where the hole 
was to put my food in, and I would 
build my tent in front of it on the 
green. 

I went right to work. First I drove 
two rows of large stakes (the space 
of ten yards from the rock), so close 


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that they stood firm like piles, and 
then with some of the rope I had, 
I made the stakes tight, and then I 
put some of the boards and planks 
on to them, and in this way I made 
a strong fence that would keep out 
both man and beast. 

I then built my tent, in fact two 
of them, a small one first, with a large 
one round it, and I put one of my 
thick sails on the top of the large 
one. The way into this place was 
from the top, by means of a pair of 
steps I had made, which I could pull 
in with me when I went in. When 
it was all done, I brought all my 
ofoods and stores in here. 


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Chapter V. 

I went out at least once a day 
with my gun, to see what I could kill 
that would be fit for food. One day 
I saw some goats, but they were so 
shy that it was hard work to get 
near to them. 

The first shot I made, I shot an 
old goat with a small kid, that stood 
near by, and when the old one fell, 
the kid stood stock still, till I came 
up to her. I felt so sad that I laid 
the old dam down and took the kid 
up in my arms to pet her, and I 
thought if I could I would bring her 
up and tame her, but she would not 
eat, so I had to kill her. 

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me in food for a long time, for which 
I was glad, as I did not want to eat 
up all my bread, for though it was 
dry and hard, I did not see how I 
was to get more when this was gone. ^ 

In a few weeks more I found a 
young kid that was lame, and I led 
her by a string to my tent. I took 
great care of her, and by the time 
she was well, she was quite tame. I 
soon had a chance to catch some 
more, and it was not long when I 
had quite a flock of goats, and all 
the milk I could use. 

My great thought, night and day, 
was how should I live. What could 
I do, way off here in this lone isle? 
The tears would run down my face, 
and I would say, “Oh! how I dread 
this lone life.” Then the thoughts 


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would come: “Well, you are here, 
but where are the rest? Why is it 
that you were not lost? Is it best to 
be here or in the sea?” And I would 
make up my mind to wait, and watch 
for a ship, and that if I was to go 
back home, it would be all in good 
time. 

As the days went by, I must make 
a note of time, or I should lose sight 
of the days and years, but I did not 
know how to do it, for want of books, 
pens, and ink; so with my knife I 
made out of some posts a great 
cross, and set it up near the shore. 
I put on it, “I came here the first of 
Sept, 1659,” ^ ^ 

notch, so I could tell the days of the 
week, month, and year. 

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all the time. I had found a swing in 
one of the rooms of the ship, which 
had been the mate’s, and in this I 
would sleep in place of my bed. 

I did not tell you of the two cats 
that I brought in my arms from the 
ship, nor of the dog who swam to 
the shore with me at the same time. 
The dog was a great pet, and a true 
friend for years; he would hunt for 
things and bring them to me ; he 
would do a great deal, but could not 
talk. I thought, if he could but 
speak to me and tell me his thoughts, 
and I could tell him mine, how glad 
I should be! 

My tent was so small that I could 
not get at half of my goods, which 
lay in a heap on the floor; so I took 
down the small one, and one side of 


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the large one, and built it out for a 
long way, and then I had a chance 
to look well at my goods. 

In a box which I had brought 
from one of the rooms in the ship, 
1 found what made my heart jump 
for joy — a lot of blank books, pens, 
and some ink. The ink I knew I 
should have to use with great care, 
for I could not make more when 
this was gone, but I made up my 
mind while I had it, I would write 
down each night all that I saw, and 
what took place through the day, as 
well as the good and bad thoughts 
of the day. 

This gave me great peace of mind. 
My book grew to be, to me, like a 
friend I could talk to, and I soon 
saw that we all have more cause for 


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joy than grief, if we will but look in 
the right light at what is sent us, and 
that I should be full of thanks to 
God, who was so good to me, when 
I had done so much that was wrong, 
and left all at home, just to have my 
own way. 

The next thing now for me to do 
was to make a chair to sit on, and a 
stand to write and read by, as well 
as to eat from. These I made out 
of the short boards I had brought 
on my raft from the ship. I could 
not build much at a time, as I had 
so few tools. When I was in need 
of a board, I had to cut down a tree 
and set it on edge by me, hew it flat 
on both sides with my axe, and then 
rub it smooth with my adze, and I 
could make but one board from a tree. 


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When I had wrought out some 
boards in this way I made some 
large shelves, and put them up all 
round on the sides of my tent. I 
laid all my tools and nails, and such 
goods as I could, on them, and hung 
up my guns, and soon had my things 
where I could get at them, and could 
keep them and my tent neat and 
clean. 

Each day, when I was through 
with my work, I would walk up to 
the top of the hill, to see if there was 
a ship or sail in sight, and when I 
came back, would sit down and cry 
like a child; my dog and cats would 
come up to me and lick my hands, 
and look at me in such a way as 
though they would like to help me, 
which would soothe me a great deal. 


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I wrote my notes for a year, and 
then had to stop, as my ink gave out, 
and I had no way to get more; but 
those that I wrote were a great help 
to me all the time I was on the isle. 

One day I caught some wild birds, 
a kind of dove, which I thought I 
would tame. I did so, and their flesh 
made good food. As time wore on, 
I found I would need some more 
lights, for when it was dark I had to 
go to bed. I had some goats’ fat, 
which I made soft by the fire, and 
then I made a wick to put in it from 
a piece of old rope, and with the aid 
of the sun to dry it, I made a small 
dish of clay, and in this way I had 
a lamp, and quite a good light. 

I had some corn left, which was so 
dry that I thought I could not use 


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it, but the bag would be good to 
keep some of my things in; so I 
threw the corn out on the ground. 
In a few days the rains set in for a 
month, and when they were through, 
I saw one day a few green stalks; 
they were quite small, and I did not 
know what they were; but what was 
my joy in a week’s time, to find that 
it was the corn which had sprung up; 
and when that same day I took my 
walk, I found on sides of the rock, 
young stalks of rice, and a small 
grain which grows quite thick in 
some lands; but how it came here I 
could not tell, for this was not the 
right soil or place for it. 


















Chapter VL 


One day I was at work in my tent, 
when I felt a great shock ; the earth 
shook so hard that I thought the top 
of my tent would fall in; one of the 
posts gave way, and I was in great 
fear. I ran out to see what was the 
cause of this. I found the ground 
loose, and the dirt and stones thrown 
up all round; then I knew it was 
one of those shocks that I had 
heard take place on the isles in the 
South. The shock was just as strong 
on the sea, for it threw the ship quite 
high up on one end, near the shore. 

When the shock came, I thought 
that I would have to seek a new place 
for my tent; but the sight of the 


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wreck drove these thoughts out of 
my mind, for I felt that I must see 
what I could bring from the wreck. 
I knew I should need all I could find. 
I went each day for a month. There 
was not much in the ship that I could 
use, as it had lain so long in the sea; 
but with the aid of my axe and claw, 
I brought back all the planks and 
boards I could get loose. 

On one of these trips, as I came 
up the hill, I spied a great crab on 
its back in the sun; I caught it, and 
the eggs and flesh were to me the 
best food I had had since I came on 
the isle. 

The rain came on for a few days, 
^ and I felt cold, which I thought was 
strange, as I ought not to feel cold 
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the isle was not far from the Line. 
The next day I had a hard chill, and 
then a great heat with faint sweats, 
and for two weeks I was quite ill. I 
was too ill to use my gun, and most 
dead with thirst; I was too weak to 
go out to get a drink, and as I lay 
on my bed, my whole thought was, 
“What shall I do?” All that I had 
gone through had not made me pray 
or think of God, as I should have 
done. When I found the green corn, 
I did think for a while that it was 
one more proof of God’s love, but my 
heart was hard, and I soon let the 
cares of each day take up my mind, 
and did not stop to bless or -thank 
Him. 

One nio^ht I had a strange dream: 
I saw a great black cloud, and back 


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of it a bright flame, which shone on 
the ground, and a man came out of 
the cloud; his face shone like fire, 
and he held a spear in his hand; the 
earth shook and the air was full of fire. 
The man said to me: “Thou wilt not 
pray, nor turn and love me, now thou 
shalt die;” and he took up his spear 
as if he meant to kill me. I gave a 
cry and a start, which woke me up. 

This led me to think of my sins, 
of my friends at home, and what they 
had told me when a boy, and that it 
was all my own self will that had 
brought me here lone and sick; and 
yet God had been so good to me to 
save my life, and I thought, “ He 
sees and knows all things; He can 
cure me; I will pray to Him and learn 
to love Him.” 


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The next day I was quite weak 
and ill at ease; my fit did not come 
on, but the dream was in my mind. 

I made a search for that best of all 
books, God’s Word, and found it in 
one of the chests. The first words 
that I read were, “Call on me, I will 
help thee;” and I knelt down and 
sent up the cry, “Son of God, be with 
me; help me to love Thee and teach 
me to pray.” 

This was the first time since a child 
that I knelt down to pray to God, 
with a sense that He was near, and 
that He would hear and help me. 
My mind was now at ease, and that 
night I laid down and slept well, and 
when I woke the next morn I felt 
quite well. 

I read my book night and morn. 


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and I soon found that I had a dear 
Friend, to whom I could go and get 
peace. 

I had heard when I was on my 
farm, that to take the weed men 
smoke, and put it in some rum to 
steep, and then to drink the rum, it 
would cure the chills ; so I made 
some of this, and took a dose of it 
for a day or two, and it did work a 
cure for me, as I was sick no more 
while I was on the isle. 

I thought of the shock that took 
place, and when the rain was gone, 
and I grew strong, I made up my 
mind that it was best for me to make 
a tour of the isle, and see if I could 
find a good place where I could go in 
case there should be more of them, as 
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It is true I had the flesh of the 
goats and birds, and the eggs of the 
large crabs I found, but my bread 
was gone, and I was sick of these, 
i I brought my raft on the shore, 
out of the reach of the tide and 
waves, and went on foot up the creek 
for two miles, where I found that the 
tide did not flow, and the sea ran in 
a small brook, which was fresh and 
clear, and on the banks of this brook 
the grass grew thick and green. 

There was a small ridge of hills 
near here, and a fresh spring rose 
out of the side of one of the hills, and 
lime trees and grape vines grew on 
all sides. The grapes were in their 
prime, ripe and sweet. 

In front o'f the hills there was a 
smooth green plain, with plants and 


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fruit vines that ran on the ground, 
The place had such a charm for me, 
and it was so high up on the isle, 
that I felt it would be a good spot 
to stay and rest for a few days. I 
thought it best to put up some sort of 
a place to sleep in; I was still weak 
and could not do much, but I built 
a small hut of green brush and leaves. 

The first night I did not sleep 
well, I was so far from my tent, and 
I thought of my pets and goods that 
I had left there. 

I spent two or three days here, and 
then went back to my tent, where I 
found all things safe. I took with 
me all the fruit I could bear, and 
hung the grapes in the sun to dry 
them; and when I took them down 
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that I could keep them for a long 
time. 

I found, by my post, that I had 
been on the isle for one year, and had 
seen no signs of a ship yet. I made 
up my mind that I should have to 
dwell here for a long time, and must 
think of how I should live, and what 
was best for me to do. 

I thought I would like some bread, 
but to have this I must have the 
meal, and to get the meal I must 
raise the corn and grain. But I had 
no tools to work with; and how 
could I do all this? I dug up the 
ground with a spade I had made of 
wood, as I had no plow, and took 
the bough of a tree for a rake, and 
with these I put in a part of the 
corn, some rice, and the small grain. 


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a few stalks of which I had found 
on the isle. 

They did not yield much the first 
year, as it was sown too late, and the 
next year, the hares would tread it 
down at night, and the birds would 
eat it in the day time; I made a trap 
to catch the birds and set my dog to 
hunt the hares, and I put a hedge 
all round the field, which kept out 
my goats, and at the end of the third 
year I had a good crop of all that 
was sown. 

My goats would stray off, and go 
with the wild ones, and it took me 
some time to hunt them up and tame 
them, so I laid out a large piece of 
ground to keep them in, and put a 
thick hedge around it,, and put up 
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the end of a year and a half, I had a 
flock of twelve goats, kids and all, 
and in two years more, two score and 
three. It took me three months to 
plant my hedge and put up a pole 
or fence by it, but this was a help to 
me to pass my time, for the days 
were long and drear. 

You would smile were you to see 
me and my pets sit down to dine. 
First, there I was, prince and lord 
of the whole isle, and Poll on the 
back of my chair, and my dog at 
my feet, with my cats on each side 
of me, all on the watch for the bits 
that I would feed them from my 
hands. 


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Chapter VII. 

I did not have much time to sit 
still through the day, for it could, 
with truth, be said of me, “With the 
sweat of thy face, shalt thou eat 
bread;” but when the day’s work 
was done, I would sit in the door of 
my tent, with my dog on one side 
of me, the cats at my feet, and Poll 
on my hand. 

Poll was a young bird I had 
caught, and I took a great deal of 
pains to teach her to talk, and the 
first time she spoke her name, it gave 
me a great start, I had not heard a 
voice but my own for so long. 

As I now had so much corn and 
rice, I thought of my bread. 


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I sat one day for a long time to 
think how I should grind my corn 
and bake my bread. First, I must 
have some pots or jars to keep my 
meal in. I thought of my clay 
lamp, and went to work to make 
a sort of paste with the clay and 
sand that was on the beach. You 
would laugh were I to tell you the 
ways I took to make this paste, and 
what odd things I made; how some 
of them fell in and some fell out, 
and some would crack with the heat 
of the sun, but I kept on, and at 
last, with the aid of the sun to bake 
them, I had two large pots to keep 
my meal in. 

Though these were quite dry and 
hard, I saw that they were not strong. 
I could not bake or cook in them, 


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nor use them for half of my things. 
One day a piece fell in the fire, and 
when I took it out I found it was 
burnt as hard as a stone, and as red 
as a tile. I now made up my mind 
to burn all my pots, and in a few 
weeks I had a nice lot of large jars, 
round pots, and a flat dish. How 
glad I was, now I could bake bread, 
boil meat, and make some broth. 

I now sought the means to grind 
my corn and grain for meal. I had 
no mill, so I thought I would stamp 
or beat it out. I spent a great deal 
of time to find a stone, but as I could 
not get one, I took a great block of 
hard wood, and with my axe and 
knife cut a deep hole in it. I put my 
grain in this hole, and with a short, 
thick piece of wood beat it out fine. 


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The next thing was a sieve to dress 
my meal, and part it from the bran 
and husk. I had no goafs hair, nor 
could I weave it if I had. This put 
a stop to my work for some weeks; 
but one day I found a piece of thin 
cloth (such as men wear round their 
necks for ties), which I had brought 
from the ship. With this I made 
three small sieves, and these I made 
last for some years. 

N ow that my grain was ground, 
and I had meal, I could make bread, 
but how was I to bake it? I had 
made some square red tiles, and put 
them all round my fire, like a hearth; 
I built a large fire, and when it was 
all burnt up to live coals, I drew 
them out on the tiles, and put my 
dough in a broad flat dish, and set it 


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on the hot tiles, and in a short time 
I had a nice loaf of bread. I now 
had all the fresh bread and rice cakes 
I could eat. 

I had now been on the isle four 
years, and still no ship came by. I 
could see a piece of land some way 
off from the isle, and each day I 
would look at it and long to go on 
it, and see what there was there; but 
fear of the wild men, that I thought 
might live there, kept me back. If 
Xury were with me, was now my 
great wish ; how much he could help 
me ! or if I had a boat, I could do so 
well. 

I thought I would go and look at 
our ship’s boat, which had been blown 
up on the shore, a great way off I 
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that I could not turn her; and I saw 
that I would have to do so much to 
her, that it would be best for me to 
make a new one. To do this, I cut 
down a large tree, and took the trunk 
and made it in shape with my axe 
and adze. 

I did not stop to think how I 
should get it to the sea. I thought, 
“Let me first make it and I will find 
away.” It took me three months of 
toil to do this, but I did not mind 
that. I was full of hope, and thought 
what a good time I should have, 
and how I would sail off In it. 

When It was hewn out, fit for me 
to launch, it was so large, that do all 
I would, I could not move It. I 
thought I would dig a trench round 
it, and see If I could slide it out to 


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sea, but it was of no use ; so I left it 
to go back to work on my farm, and 
I felt that I must make up my mind 
to end my days here. 

I had large flocks of goats, good 
crops of corn and grain, in fact all 
that I could eat, and the means to 
cook with. The most I stood in need 
of now was clothes. I had worn out 
all that I had brought from the ship, 
and I was now in rags. When I 
would kill a goat or kid, I would 
save the skin, and hang it in the 
sun to dry, and in this way I had 
quite a large stock of nice skins. 
The first thing I made of these was 
a great cap for my head, and I made 
this so well, that I made a whole 
suit. I put the hair of the skin out, 
so that it would shed the rain. The 


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coat was long and loose, and made 
fast to the waist with a belt. 

The next thing to make was a sort 
of shade, to take with me when I 
went out, to shield me from the sun 
and rain. I made a frame and put 
a skin on it, but though I could 
make it spread, I had hard work to 
make it let down; but I did it at 
last, and found it of great use to 
me. 

If you could have seen me when 
I went out to walk, you would say 
that I had no need to be vain, and 
that I did not have to use a glass to 
fix my clothes, but they were the 
best I could get. 

One year more went by, and this 
I think was one of the best ones I 
spent on the isle. I had been well 


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all the time, and grew strong; my 
crops were fine, my pets were all 
round me, and I had time to read 
God’s Word night and morn; but 
with these I could not keep my 
thoughts from a boat, and I went to 
work to make a small one. The last 
one was in my mind, and I took 
great care to build this one the 
right size, and not too far from the 
edge of the sea. 

When it was done, I put a mast 
and sail on it, and made a place to 
stow my arms and food in. I put 
my shade on one end to shield me 
from the hot sun. I took a short 
sail out, and I had such a good time 
that I thought in a few days I would 
take a long sail. So one morn, I 
put my gun and some food with a 


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case of rum in the boat, and set out 
to view the isle, and see all that lay 
round it This was in the sixth 
year of my reign on the isle. 


Chapter VIII. 

When I had been out three days, 
a great gale came up and drove me 
out to sea, and I thought that I with 
my boat would be lost The fourth 
day the wind went down some, and 
I put on all my sail, and the wind 
and tide took me up on the end of 
the isle a great way from home. 
H ere I left the boat, and had to walk 
home; and when I came to my place, 
I was so worn out that I laid down 


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in the shade of one of my trees and 
fell in a deep sleep. 

You may judge of my fright when 
I was woke from my sleep by a voice 
that said, “Who are you?” “Where 
have you been?” 

At first I thought I was in a 
dream ; but when I saw Poll on the 
top of the hedge, I knew it was her 
voice I heard. These were some of 
the words I had taught her, to cheer 
me when I was sad. 

For some time I kept at home, 
but one day I thought I w^ould walk 
down and take a look at the boat. 
When quite near it I saw the print 
of a man’s foot in the sand — toes, heel, 
and all parts of a foot. I went up 
and down the shore, but saw no one. 

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I could. I could not sleep that 
night, and for three days kept close 
in doors, but the want of food drove 
me out. I took a look all round, 
and as I saw no one, I thought the 
mark I had seen might be the print 
of my own foot which I had left 
there at some time, but still I could 
not get rid of my fear. 

H ow queer men are ! to-day we 
love, the next day we hate. Had 
not all my grief been that I was here, 
with no friends, none to talk to but 
my pets? And now when I thought 
a man might be near, why should I 
shake with fear? 

One morn as I took up my book 
to read, I saw the words, “Wait on 
the Lord, be of good cheer, I will 
give thee strength; wait, I say, on 


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the Lord.” I thought of these words 
for some time, and then I knelt down 
to pray God to take care of me and 
give me peace. 

I felt that I must fix my tent as 
well as my goods and flocks in a 
more safe way than they were. I 
made some holes in the ground some 
way off from my hedge, and drove 
large posts m them, and with old 
boards and planks I built a high 
wall; and a short way from this, I set 
out some young trees, which I knew 
would grow fast, and at the end of 
two years I had a thick grove all 
round, which hid my place from 
view. 

Two or three years more went by 
and I saw no signs of men, and 
thought that the print of a man’s foot 


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was not so great a thing, and that I 
had been weak to feel so much fear. 
I now felt at ease, and would take 
short sails in my boat, and take walks 
on the shore. 

One day I went up to the top of 
a hill to look at the sea; I thought I 
saw a boat, but it was so far off that 
it did not look like more than a speck, 
but as I did not have a glass with 
me could not make it out. I went 
on down the hill to a part of the isle 
where I had not been, when I saw 
close to the edge of the shore, a pit 
where there had been a fire made, 
and all round were strewn skulls, 
hands and feet, and burnt bones of 
men. 

At the sight of these I grew sick, 
and went up the hill with all the 


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Speed I could, and when I came to 
my tent burst in a flood of tears. 
This was the first true sign of men. 
But what kind of men, I thought — 
a wild set, that will eat me up if they 
find me. My whole mind, by night 
as well as day, was how shall I get 
rid of them ? But what could I do 
with two or three score of them, 
with their darts and bows, with 
which they could shoot as true to a 
mark as I could with my gun? I 
thought of my gun dust, and that 
I might blow them up ; in fact, I 
thought of all sorts of ways, but none 
of them would do. The best thing 
for me to do was to load my gun, 
and stay at home and watch. 

I took my boat up in a safe place, 
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the things that were in her, home to 
my tent, so that if they came they 
could not take them off. I kept on 
the watch for them all the time, and 
each day would go up to the top of 
the hill to see if they were there, but 
did not see them, nor a sign of them, 
for a long while, as I will show 
you. 

I thought if a ship would come 
that way, then there would be help 
for me. But none came. I did not 
dare to drive a nail, or chop a stick, 
for fear of the noise, or make a fire 
for fear the wild men would see the 
smoke. 

I had more care of my life now 
than for my food ; but I soon found 
that to live I must eat, and I must 
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So I went in the wood to cut down 
some small trees (to make a fire 
of), and while I was there I saw 
back of a thick branch of low brush 
a large hole, and in this hole two 
large bright things like eyes, which 
sent a flash on me. I took up a 
small stick of wood that was on fire, 
and went to see what it was. As I 
came up I heard a sigh, and then a 
slight noise. This put me in a cold 
sweat, but I went on, and when I 
came close to the hole I saw that it 
was an old goat that had gone in 
there to die. I found the hole to be 
the mouth of a cave. Just then my 
fire went out, and the place was so 
low that I thought I would not go 
in then, but wait till the next day. 

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with me and went to the cave. I 
had to creep in, on my hands and 
knees, through a sort of strait for ten 
feet. When I got through this, I 
saw that the roof rose up high, and 
that I could stand up; and what a 
grand sight now met my view! 
When I threw my lights round, the 
roof and sides shone like gems, gold 
and bright stars. I stood for some 
time lost in thought. 

I had been on the isle for so long, 
and this was the first I knew of this 
strange and great place, and yet it 
was so near my tent ! Where could 
I find more proof of God’s might 
and care than this? The cave was 
twelve feet wide, and quite dry, and 
I thought this would be a safe place 
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gun dust, and such things as I would 
need; and the mouth was so small 
that the wild men would not think 
to look in for me, and if they did, 
would have to come one at a time, 
and I could get rid of them by use 
of my arms. I took care to bring 
in all I might want as soon as I 
could, and felt that I had found a 
safe place to hide in, and I could 
live there for some time. 

Now for the first time I thought 
how dear to me were all the things 
round me. My Polls, for I had two 
or three, would call me by name as 
soon as I came in ; my dog and cats 
would bark and purr round me; my 
tame birds would light on my head 
and back, and I had no fears for want 
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been peace with me if it had not been 
for my great dread of the wild men. 
And must I now give up all to them 
and die-? No! that I would not do 
if I could help it. I made up my 
mind that if the wild men came I 
would flee to my cave, and do all 
that I could to save my life. So I 
went back to my work on the farm 
and the care of my flocks; and felt 
that God, who had done so much for 
me, would help and save me. 

In a few months from this time 
my good old dog fell dead, right 
near the door of my tent. This 
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In this way five or six more years 
went by, and I saw no more signs 
of the men, and I thought it might 
have been mere chance that had 
brought them on the isle, and that I 
had done wrong to fret so much ; 
but one day, on my way home from 
my walk up the hill, I saw a smoke, 
and as near as I could judge two 
miles down, and this time on my 
side of the isle. 

I ran back to the top of the hill, 
and laid down flat, and took a good 
look at the place where it came from. 
I saw that there was quite a large 
fire, with nine men round it I could 
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thought, no doubt, the fire was to 
cook the food they had brought with 
them. There were two small boats 
on the edge of the shore, in which 
they had come. As soon as the tide 
went out, they all got in the boats 
and went off 

I went down to the spot, and saw 
from the bones and skulls that lay all 
round, that they had come here to 
have one of their feasts. I went 
back to my farm, and took up all 
that grew round my place that would 
lead them to think I was there, and 
made it look as wild as I could. I 
took in my steps, and I then sat 
down in my tent to think what I 
should do. I knew that the time 
had come for me to act. I erew 
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them. I would watch for them, and 
if they came and found me, I would 
fight them off. I took two of my 
guns, and put them through some 
holes I made in the fence, and kept 
them so I could fire on them as soon 
as they came up. 

Of course, for a longtime I did not 
do much on my farm. I had food, 
and my goats gave me all the milk I 
could drink, and I kept close watch 
for near a year for the men. 

One night in the spring the wind 
blew hard, and I knew we should 
have a storm. I put up all my things 
for the night, took in my guns, and 
sat down in my tent to read God’s 
Word, when I heard a gun, and in 
a short time I heard it once more. 
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but thought that it came from some 
ship at sea which was in need of 
aid. 

I ran to the top of the hill, in hopes 
that if it were so I could see them, 
or they could see me, and I built a 
large fire, as a sign for them; but the 
wind blew so that it was hard to keep 
my fire up, and it was so dark that I 
could not see a thing; but I kept 
on as well as I could till the next 
morn, when to my great grief I saw 
that it was a ship which had struck 
on the same sand where our ship 
had been lost. I could not tell if 
there were men in it or not. Now 
for the first time in years I got my 
boat down, and put the mast and 
sail in it, and as much food and 
drink as I thought I would need, 


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and put my large shade in one end, 
and then set sail for the ship. 

I did not think of the wild men. 
All my hope now was to see if I 
could save the lives of some of those 
who might be on board; and so 
great was this hope, that I could 
scarce wait to reach the ship. To 
hear and speak to a man of my own 
kind was the great wish of my heart. 
In less than two hours I came up to 
it; but all was still. A dog that 
was on deck was all that was left in 
the ship that had life. He came at 
me with a cry and bark, and was 
most dead for food and drink. I 
gave him some bread, and a drink 
from a jar I had with me, and then 
I put him in my boat. The wind 
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ship’s sails, and the ship had struck 
the sand in such a way, it was most 
split in two. 

I went down to search the rooms, 
and found in one of them two dead 
men, but the rest were gone. My 
thought was, where ? Had they 
gone off in a small boat and found a 
safe place, or had they gone down 
in the sea? In one of the rooms there 
were three large chests, some clothes, 
but not much that would be of use to 
me, as most of the goods and stores 
were spoilt by the sea. There were 
some large casks of wine and rum 
down in the hold of the ship, but 
they were too large for me to lift ; 
but I found two chests, a good spy 
glass, three large flasks, a pair of 
tongs, a small pot, and some good 


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shirts. I put all these in my boat. 
From all that I saw, I knew thafthe 
ship had a great deal of wealth on 
board, and I think was bound for 
some place on the southwest coast 
to get gems. 

I now went back to the isle. I 
had been gone three days, but I 
found all my things as I had left 
them, that is, my goats, cats and 
birds. 

When I came to look in the chests 
I found in one of them three large 
bags of gold ; but what good was 
that to me ? I would give it for 
some good shoes or socks, or some 
seeds from home ; but I laid it by 
with the rest I had, in hopes that at 
some time it might help me to get 
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I had been here a score and four 
years, and most of the time had been 
spent in peace, and I had made up 
my mind to stay and die here. My 
farm and pets had kept me at work 
most of the time, and, as I have said, 
if it had not been for the few times 
the wild men came, I should have 
felt that I had more cause for joy 
than some men in my own land. 
But the sight of the wreck and men 
of my own kind wrought a great 
change in me. I would sit and 
think of the wild men, that if they 
came, they would kill me ; then I 
would look at the wreck, and I 
said: “Here was a ship that had 
come near the shore, and why might 
there not more come?” I could 
not work. I lost my faith and trust 


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I thought I would take my boat and 
go out to sea, and that by chance I 
might drilt out in way of some ship 
that would take me in. 

For a year and a half I was full of 
these wild thoughts, and I would go 
out and watch by the hour, for both 
the wild men and a ship. I did not 
do much else but cook my food, milk 
my goats, and feed my flocks and pets. 
I had corn, rice, grain, and fruit, that 
I knew would last for some time. 

One morn, I went out to see to 
my boat, when I saw five small boats 
on the shore, quite close by, and near 
them full three score black men. 

I ran home and put up all my 
things as safe as I could, and stuck 
my axe and sword in my belt, took 
my gun and my glass, and went up 


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to the top of the hill to watch them. 
I saw that they had a fire and some 
kind of meat, but I could not tell 
what it was. They all sat down as 
I thought to eat it. 


Chapter X. 

When they were through, I saw 
some of them get up and dance in 
their way round the fire, while some 
went off; they soon came back, and 
brought with them two slaves, bound 
hand and foot. They took off their 
bands, and left one to stand while 
they went to work to cut one up. 

When the first one found he was 
free, he ran off, and straight in the 


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road to my house. When the rest 
saw him run, they all gave full chase. 

This put me in a great fright, for 
I did not want them to reach my 
place. I went down to my tent, 
with all the speed I could, and got 
one more gun. I thought “I will 
try to save the poor man if I can.” 
There was a small creek through 
which he would have to swim to 
reach me, and I went down to it. I 
found that all but two had gone 
back (as the rest could not swim), 
and the poor slave was quite close to 
me. I did not like to fire, for I did 
not want the rest to hear; so I made 
a sign to the slave to come up to me, 
and then I went up to the men. The 
first one I gave a hard knock with 
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though dead at my feet. The one 
that was left then took aim at me 
with his bow, and to save my own 
life I had to fire. I shot him dead. 

The fire and noise of my gun gave 
the poor slave such a fright that he 
could not move, and I thought he 
might get back in their hands ; so I 
made signs to him to come to me, 
and that I would not hurt him. He 
came to me and knelt down and 
gave the ground a kiss, and then 
took my feet in his hands, and gave 
them a kiss, to let me know that he 
would be my slave. The man that 
I thought was dead now rose up.' 
I saw that he was not much hurt, 
but would soon get up on his feet ; 
when the slave made a siorn that he 
would like to cut off his head. I 


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gave him my sword, and he ran up 
to him and cut off his head as quick 
as a flash, and brought it to me and 
put it down on the ground by me, 
with a laugh. I did not like this, 
for I thought my life was not safe 
with such a man. When this was 
done, he made a hole in the sand 
with his hands, and put the two men 
in it, so that the rest could not see 
them if they should come back. 

I now told him by signs to come 
with me, and we went to my place. 
I did not care to take him to my 
tent, but went with him to my cave. 
H ere I made a bed of rice straw 
for him, and then gave him some 
food and drink, when he laid down 
and went to sleep. 

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him. I saw that he was well made, 
tall and good shape, with straight 
strong limbs. His hair was long 
and black, but did not curl ; he had 
a small nose, a good mouth, with 
thin lips, and firm, white, well set 
teeth. His skin was not as black as 
the men that came with him, but 
more of a light brown; and as he lay 
there his face wore a sweet smile. 
I went out to milk my goats, and 
put up some things for the night, and 
while I was at this he woke up, and 
came out to me, and made all sorts 
of signs that he would like to wait 
on me; and at last he lay his head 
down flat on the ground close by my 
feet, and took one of them in his 
hand and laid it on his head, and 
made a sign to me that he would 


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serve me as long as he should live. 
I let him know that I was glad, and 
then I taught him a few words and 
my name. I could not tell what his 
name was ; but I thought I would 
call him from the name "of the day 
on which I had found him, which was 
Friday. I took a great deal of pains 
to make him know what I meant. I 
sent him back to the cave, and I 
slept there with him all night. 

The next morn I led him up to 
the top of the hill, to see if the men 
had come back ; but there were no 
signs of them, and we went back to 
my tent, where I got three guns, 
some shot, a bow and a sword. I 
gave Friday some of these to take 
with him, and we went to the spot 
where the men had been. I saw 


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three skulls, five hands, the bones of 
three or four feet and legs, and a lot 
of small bones. I told Friday to 
pick them all up, and lay them in 
a heap, and set fire to them and 
burn them up, and I made signs 
to him that he must not eat the flesh 
of men; if he did I would shoot him. 
When we had done this I went back 
to my tent, and I went to work to see 
if I could make him some clothes. 

I found some things in one of the 
chests, and I made him a goat skin 
coat and a hare skin cap. At first 
he said they hurt him, and that he 
could not walk in them, and he went 
round ill at ease ; but in a few days 
he said they were nice and all right, 
and was quite proud to think hie 
clothes were as good as mine. 


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For some time I did not feel quite 
sure in my mind, that I could trust 
my life with Friday, and took all 
sort of means to fix my tent up safe ; 
but there was no use for this, for I 
found him full of love and true to 
me, and that he would give up his 
life for me, as I will show you by 
and by. 

I soon found that, to cure Friday of 
his taste for men’s flesh, he must have 
some kind of meat, and I thought I 
would teach him to kill and dress 
game for both him and me. One 
day I took him out to shoot and 
hunt with me. It bought I would 
kill a kid of my own flock and dress 
it, but as we went to the wood, I saw 
an old goat with two kids. I caught 
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still,” and made signs to him not to 
stir. I took up my gun, and shot one 
of the kids. Poor Friday did not 
know what to do; he shook life a leaf 
in the wind, and I thought he would 
sink to the ground. He came up to 
me and knelt down by me, as if to 
pray to me not to kill him. I saw 
that I must find a way to show him 
that I would do him no harm. I 
took him up by the hand and told 
him to bring me the kid, and in a 
short time I saw a bird, and I made 
signs to him that I would shoot it 
and it would fall. I did so. This 
made Friday stand and look for a 
long time. I told him to pick it up ; 
he took it in his hand, and then gave 
it to me ; he had such a queer look 
on his face, as if to say, “Well, if 


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you will not kill me, that thing you 
have there will do it.” He would 
not touch the gun for some days, but 
would go up to it and talk to it, and 
pray to it not to kill him. In a few 
weeks this fear wore off, and he would 
take the gun and go out to shoot and 
hunt as well as I did. 


Chapter XI. 

When we got home I made some 
broth of a part of the kid, and took 
the rest to roast; and when I had 
fed Friday with the meat and broth, 
he made signs to me that he thought 
it was good, and that he would eat 
man’s flesh no more, which I was 
glad to hear. He would not eat 


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salt with his food, but would make 
a face as if he were sick when he saw 
me eat it. 

The next day I set him to work 
to beat and sift some corn for me, 
and then I let him see me make my 
bread and bake it ; and in a few 
weeks Friday could do all my work 
as well as I could. 

As I had now two mouths to feed 
I knew I would have to raise more 
grain, and this would make more 
work on my farm. I told Friday 
he must help, which he was glad to 
do, for his whole mind was, what 
he could do to show his love for me. 

What joy there was now for me ! 
H ere was some one I could teach 
and talk to ; no more of those lone 
drear hours for me. I thought I 


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would like to know how he came to 
be with those men, and if he would 
like to go back to his own land ; so I 
said to him : 

“ How is it that you were in the 
hands of those men that brought you 
here ?” 

F. “ There was a great fight with 
their tribe and my tribe, and my 
king had to give up, and they take 
me with a lot more men, and make 
us slaves and bring us here to eat 
us up.” 

R. “ Could not your tribe fight 
and beat them ?” 

F. “Yes, yes, we fight the best; 
but they more than my tribe in the 
place where me was.” 

R. “ But why did not your tribe 
get you from their hands then ?” 


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F. “ They run one, two, three and 
me, and make me go in the boat. 
My tribe have no boat at that 
time.” 

R. “Well, Friday, what does 
your tribe do with the men they 
take? Do they take and eat them 
as these did ?” 

F. “ Yes, my tribe eats mans too; 
eat all up.” 

R. “Where do they take them?” 

F. “ Go to place where they think.” 

R. “Do they come here?” 

F. “Yes, they come here; come 
else place too.” 

R. “ Have you been here with 
them ?” 

F. “Yes, I been here” (and points 
to the N. W. side of the isle, which 
it seems was their side). 


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He then told me that a great way 
back of the moon (he meant in the 
west), there were white men, and 
that I might go to them if I had 
“ two boat.” At first I did not 
know what he meant, but found that 
he meant a ship as large as two 
boats. This was good news for me, 
and I made up my mind that, with 
Friday’s help, I would make a large 
ship, and try once more to get off 

I thought I would like to know 
who the tribes were that he spoke 
of ; but all I could get out of him 
was “ Cribs,” by which I knew he 
meant those tribes that dwell on the 
large isles which lie south of that 
great land east of my own. 

One day I thought I would teach 
him who the true God was. I said 


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to him : “ Do you know who made 
you, the sea, land, moon and stars?” 
He said it was an old, old man, who 
was old when the sun, moon, sea and 
land were made. 

I said to him: “ If this old man 
made all things, why do not all things 
pray to him ?” 

With a grave Jook, he said: “All 
things say O ! to him.” 

I then said: “ Where do the men 
who die in your land go to?” 

He said “To the old man.” 

“And do those you eat up go 
there too ?” 

He said “Yes.” 

I then told him of God, how He 
made and took care of us, and sent 
H is Son to die for us, and teach us 
to pray, and that He could hear 


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US way up in the sky, and that 
He would keep us from the bad 
one, who made us think and do 
wrong. 

He said that if God could hear so 
far off. He had more might and could 
do more than the old man ; and if He 
was so strong and had so much 
might, why did He not kill the bad 
one who was the cause of so much 
sin ? 

At this I could not say a word ; 
but felt that I must pray to God to 
help me bring this dark soul in the 
right way to Him. I had the sure 
guide to bliss, that is the Word of 
God, and this I read with great care 
to him night and morn, and while I 
did so, I found peace for us both. 

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how I had been cast on the isle, and 
of our ship; and one day I took him 
to the wreck of the ship. H e stood for 
a long while, as if in deep thought, and 
then said : “ Me see such boat like 
come to place at my tribe and now 
for the first time I thought that the 
white men, from the ship that was 
lost, might have gone to his place, 
and I said to him: “Were there 
white men in the boat?” He said, 
with some warmth, “Yes, the boat 
full of white mans. We save the 
white mans from drown.” Said I : 
“Where are they now?” He told 
me “They live, they dwell at my 
tribe.” “ Well, how did it come that 
you did not kill and eat them?” He 
said: “We no eats mans but when 
they make war fight;” by which he 


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meant such as come to fight with 
them. 

One day when we were on the 
top of a hill on the east side of the 
isle, Friday gave a loud cry — “ Oh 
joy ! Oh glad ! There see my land; 
there my friends !” “Do you wish 
to be back in your own land?” I 
said to him. “Yes, I be much O 
glad to be at my own tribe.” 

“ What would you do there?” said 
I. “Would you turn wild and eat 
man’s flesh as you did once ?” 

With a shake of his head, he said: 
“No, no! Friday tell them to live 
good ; tell them to pray God ; tell 
them eat bread, drink milk ; no eat 
man more.” 

“Why, then,” said I, “they will 
kill you.” 


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With a grave look, he said: “No, 
no! they no kill me; they will love to 
learn.” 

I then said to him: “ Will you go 
back to them ?” 

He said, with a smile, that he 
could not swim so far. I told him I 
would make a boat for him. 

He said he would go if I would 
go with him. 

“ I go!” says I. “Why, they will 
eat me if I go there.” 

“No, no!” says he; “me make 
them no eat you; me make them 
much love you.” The next day I 
took him to see the boat, and when 
he got in I saw he was quick, and 
could make it go as swift as I could. 
He said the boat was too small to 
go to his land, and I told him that I 


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would make him a big boat, and he 
could go home to his tribe. He 
gave me a deep, sad look, and then 
took his axe from his belt and told 
me to kill him. 

“What must I kill you for?” I 
said. 

“Why you mad at me? Why 
you send Friday off? You go with 
Friday.” 

“ What will I do there ?” 

“ You teach them know God, pray 
God, live new life ; you teach wild 
mans be good, like you teach me.” 

I saw that he was true and meant 
all he said, and that I did not need 
more proof of his love ; so I told 
him that he should stay with me, 
and that when he went I would go 
with him. 


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This made him glad, and my own 
mind was at ease. 

From this time my mind was made 
up to build a large boat, and to go 
with him to see if I could find the 
white men he spoke of. 


Chapter XII. 

Friday and I went to see if we 
could find a large tree that we could 
cut down and get near to the shore, 
so that we could launch our boat 
when it was done; for I thought of 
the one I had made and could not 
use. 

We found one that Friday thought 
would do. It was a strange kind of 


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wood to me, but hard and strong. 
We both took a great deal of pains 
to make it. The most of it was 
hewn in shape with my axe, and when 
it was done it took us two weeks to 
roll it to the sea. Friday cut down 
a tall fir tree, which I made a mast 
of, and I put two sails in it, which I 
made as well as I could from the old 
ones I had left ; and a place to stow 
my arms and food in. When I was 
through I felt quite proud of it. It 
was good shape, large, and I had 
no doubt but that it would sail 
well. 

As it was most time for the great 
rains to come on, I thought it best 
not to go to sea till they were 
through ; so we brought the ship 
up the creek, out of the way of the 


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tide of the sea; and to keep her dry, 
we put boughs of trees on her, which 
made a sort of roof, and I made 
Friday dig a small dock for her, so 
that she could just float round. 

For the next two months we had 
to stay in doors most of the time. 
I found Friday to be a great help to 
me. He would feed my pets, take 
care of my flocks, milk goats, cook 
my food and spread my meals, and, 
best of all, could sit and talk with 
me. In this way we spent our days 
till the rain was gone, and then we 
went to get the ship, to fit her up and 
go to sea. 

One day I sent Friday to the shore 
to see if he could find one of those 
large crabs, for the sake of the eggs 

(as well as the flesh), which I thought 
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would be nice to take with us. He 
had not been gone long when I 
saw him on the run, and heard him 
cry : “ O sir ! O sir ! O sad ! O 
bad!” 

When he came up to me I said: 

What is it, Friday ?” 

Oh ! there one, two, three boats! 
one, two, three!” 

I thought he meant six boats, but 
soon saw there were but three of 
them. 

Poor Friday shook so hard, and 
was so full of fear that they had come 
to take him back, and that they would 
kill him and eat him up, that it took 
me some time to soothe him. I told 
him not to mind them ; but that he 
must do just as I told him to, and 
said : 


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“We can fight them, Friday.” 

He said: “Yes; me shoot.” 

“Will you stand by me, Friday, 
and do as I bid you?” 

He said: “ Me die when you bid 
me die.” 

I went and got some rum, and gave 
him a good drink of it to cheer him 
up, and then I made him take the 
two large guns and load them with 
large swan shot, while I took two 
small guns, a bag of fine shot, and I 
stuck my knife in my belt, and hung 
my great sword by my side. I took 
my glass and went up on the side of 
the hill, and from there I saw that 
there were three boats, and more than 
a score of men, who had just come 
on land, and brought with them 
three men bound hand and foot. 


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and that they had come to hold one 
of their feasts. 

I made up my mind I would put 
a stop to this, and would go down 
and shoot them all. I told Friday 
to come and keep close to me, and 
not to shoot till I bid him, and by 
no means to speak a word. 

As I went down the hill, the 
thought came to me : “ What right 
have I to shed blood, or dip my 
hands in the blood of these men, who 
have done me no harm?’' To be 
sure, Friday might feel they were his 
foes, and I could not blame him if he 
felt that he must kill them ; but had 
not God made them as well as me? 
and did Fie not put them here on 
earth in their wild state ? and had I 
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right for me to judge them ? So I 
thought, I will go down near them 
and watch them; and if I find they 
will not do me nor my place any 
harm, I will act then as God will 
guide me. 

When I came to the skirt of the 
wood, on the side which was next to 
them, I told Friday in a low tone to 
go to a large tree and look, and bring 
me word if he could see what they 
were at. 

H e came back and said that they 
had made a fire, and had the three 
bound men close by ; that one of 
them was a white man, and he knew 
they meant to kill and eat them ; in 
fact, he thought that one of them 
was dead. When I heard that they 
had a white man, it made my head 


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swim, and I was full of rage ; so I 
went to a place near by, where I 
could see all they did, and found 
that they had sent two of their men 
to kill the white man, and would 
soon cook and eat him up like the 
rest. 

I knew that I had no time to lose. 
I said to Friday: “Do as I bid you, 
and just as you see me do. Do not 
fail.” 

He said “Yes,” and when I gave 
the word “ fire,” he shot at them the 
same time I did. 

The men ran in all sorts of ways, 
to the right and to the left, with 
loud yells and cries of fright, and 
went for their boats. At this I 
ran out of the wood, with Friday 
close to my heels. I gave a loud 


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shout and bade Friday do the same, 
and then Friday and I shot at 
them once more. I thought we had 
shot them all, for they all fell down 
in a heap in the boat; but in a short 
time two of them got up and came 
on shore, when Friday made a rush 
at them, at which they took to their 
heels, and were soon with all the 
rest far out to sea. 

While Friday went to fight them, 
I went up to the poor white man, 
and cut with my knife the bands that 
bound him, and told him to get up; 
but he was too weak to speak or 
stand. I took out my flask and gave 
him a drink, and a cake of corn 
bread to eat, which gave him some 
strength, and he sat up and made 
signs to show me that he must in 


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some way thank me for what I had 
done. I told him not to mind that 
now, but to try and get up, and I 
would take him home with me. 

While I was with this man Friday 
went to look at a poor wretch, who 
lay bound in a boat the men had left 
in their fright to get off He cut the 
bands that bound him, at which he 
gave a groan, for he thought Friday 
was one of the men who had come 
to kill him. When I heard him 
groan I left the white man (who by 
this time could sit up and talk), and 
went to see what I could do for the 
poor black man. I gave him a large 
dram of rum, which, when he had 
drank it, made him come to, and he 
sat up in the boat and spoke to 
me. 


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When Friday heard him speak 
and saw his face, he took him in his 
arms and gave him a hug and a kiss; 
and then he wrung his hands and 
beat his own face and head like a 
mad man. It made me shed tears 
to see him laugh, and sing and 
dance round him. I said to him : 
“ What ails you ? Who is it ?” For 
a long while he did not speak, and 
then told me that he was this man’s 
son. 

Now that these poor men were 
free, and it was quite late in the 
day, I thought we must get them to 
our tent. They were so stiff and 
sore that they could not move, 
so I gave Friday some rum to 
rub their arms and hands and feet 
with. 


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I said to Friday : “ Did you give 
this man some bread ?” 

He said: “ None, bad dog, eat all 
up self.” 

I gave him some cakes of bread 
I had with me, and I saw Friday 
run off as swift as a deer, and I 
could not think where he had gone; 
but in a short time he came back 
with a jug, that he had gone way back 
to our farm for, that he might give the 
poor old man a fresh drink from our 
spring. We all took a drink, and 
the men by this time were quite at 
ease ; but as they could not walk, 
Friday and I made a sort of hand 
chair, and took them to my place. 

But when we came there we found 
that we could not get them in my 
tent, for they could not climb my 


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steps; and as they must have a good 
place to rest in for the night, Friday 
and I made a small tent with some 
poles, and put old sails on the top, 
and then made two nice beds of rice 
straw for them to lie on. 

I sent Friday down for our arms, 
and all the things that we had left 
on the shore, and in the mean time 
I cut up a young kid and went to 
work to boil or stew some of it ; and 
I made them both a good dish of 
broth, with some rice in it. 


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Friday soon came back with the 
things I had sent him for, and we 
had our meal; and then I told him 
to put the men to bed, and stay with 
them for the night, for they might 
want him. He did so, and I sat for 
a long time in the door of my tent 
to think. I felt quite like a king. 
Was I not lord of all here? and here 
are all my men, three whom I think 
would serve me, and if need be lay 
down their lives for me. 

The next morn I had a good long 
talk with the men, and the white 
man, who I shall call Frank, told 
me that he had come from Spain, and 
that he, with some more men, had 


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been in the ship that was lost, and 
they went in the small boat to the 
main land, where they found naught 
but wild men; and as they could not 
get off from them, they had made 
them (the white men) their slaves, 
and when they were in want of a 
feast, they would come on the isle and 
bring a man or two with them, and 
cut them up; and they had brought 
him with two oT their own kind to 
do the same to them. 

The old man had such a queer 
name that I thought I would call 
him Jack. I thought we had best 
be on the watch for the wild men, 
for fear that they would come back 
with some more of their own men, 
and try to kill us; but Jack thought 
we would see them no more, for they 


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had had such a fright at the noise 
and fire of our arms, that they would 
think we were some kind of sprites 
that had come down from th^ sky 
to kill them. 

I found Jack could talk . quite 
well, as the white men had been 
with him for some time, and as they 
were all kept as slaves, had made 
friends of them. 

Frank said, that he thought if we 
went to the place where they had 
come from, the rest of the white men 
that were there would be glad to 
come back with me and serve me. 
They had not had a chance to get 
off, for they had no arms or tools to 
work with, and I thought we ought 
to go right off for them ; but Frank 
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now two more to feed, and it will not 
be right to bring more men here, till 
you have more to feed them with, 
else we may all starve. 

So I went to work first to make 
my tent and caves more safe, and 
then Frank and I with the two black 
men did naught for a year and a 
half but work on my farm, and when 
I felt that I had what would keep us 
all, or that we could raise it, I sent 
Frank and Jack out on a boat, to 
see if they could find them and bring 
them back to me. 

They had been gone eight days, 
when one morn, Friday came in the 
tent to me and said, “ O ! sir, they 
are come, they are come!” and I 
thought our men had come, and ran 
out with all the speed I could to 


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meet them, but I soon found that it 
was a strange ship, and not on my 
side of the isle. 

I thought I had best watch them 
for a while ; so I stood still, and I 
saw them put out a long boat, and 
put three men that were bound in 
it, and then five men got in and they 
all came to the shore. 

Friday said, “ O ! sir, you see 
white mens eat men, as well as wild 
men.” 

“ Why,” said I, “do you think they 
will eat them all ?” 

“ Oh ! yes, they will eat them.” 

“ No, No, Friday, I think they 
will kill them, but you may be sure 
they will not eat them.” 

When they had all got up on the 
land, I saw one of the men raise his 





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sword to strike one of the bound 
men, who hung his head, as if he 
would let him do what he would, and 
then he did the same to the rest, and 
then set them free. 

The five men then went to the 
boat, but the tide was so low, they 
could not get her off the sand ; so 
they sat down near by, to wait for 
the tide to come in, and the three 
men who had been bound, went off 
a short way and laid down in the 
shade of a tree. 

I now went to my tent, took all 
the arms I thought Friday and I 
could use, and went back to the men 
on the ground, and said to them, 
“ Sirs, why are you here, and who 
are you ?” 

When they heard my voice, they 


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all gave a start, and I thought they 
would all flee in the woods. 

I said “Do not fear; I am a friend 
who has come to help you.” 

“ Did you drop down from the 
sky, and are you man or God?” said 
one of them with a grave look. 

“A God would not be apt to come 
in these clothes/’ said I, “but all help 
is from the Lord. Tell me your case, 
and I will see if I can give you aid. 
You see that my man and I have 
arms, and we will do what we can to 
serve you.” 

* One man spoke, and said: “Our 
case is too long a one to tell you, 
whileour foes are so near. My name 
is John Smith ; we have come from 
Hull, and that is my ship out there, 
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Sea isles, and on the way out, some 
of my crew grew rough and rude, 
and said they would not mind me, 
and put me in chains ; and now they 
have thrust me, (with my mate and 
this man), out here to die. They 
rhean to go back to the ship, and 
make the rest go with them where 
they please.” 

“H ave they fire arms?” I said. 

“ They had two guns, which they 
have left in the boat.” 

“Well, then,” said I, “leave the 
rest to me. I see that they are all 
to sleep now. It will not be a 
hard task to kill them all. Shall I 
do it ?” 

He thought for a while, and then 
said if we could get rid of two of 
them, who were the worst of the lot. 


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that the rest would give up to him, 
and go back to the ship and do what 
was right. 

I said: “ If I do this and help you 
to get your ship back, what will you 
do for me?” 

He said: “If you save my life 
and help me to get my ship, you 
shall have my ship, and you may go 
where you please, or I will take you 
right back to your own land. If we 
do not get the ship I will stay here 
and work for you, and do just as you 
say in all things.” 

I saw that I could trust him, and 
I gave each of them a gun, and we 
went up near to the men. 

One of our men made a slight 
noise, which woke up two of them, 
and they spoke to the rest, at which 


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they made a spring for us. I told 
our men to fire. They did so, and 
we shot two of them. There were 
now three of them left, and one of 
these had a slight wound, and they 
ran for the boat; but Friday had 
gone down to it, and brought up the 
oars and sails and the guns, and now, 
ofcourse, they could not get off. They 
were in a great rage, and for a time 
did not know what to do; but at last 
they made up their minds to yield to 
us, and we bound them hand and 
foot, and took them up to my place. 
The men who were bound I put in 
a safe place, and the rest of us went 
to my tent, where we had a good 
meal, and then sat down to talk and 
rest. 

I told the men of my life on the 


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isle, how long I had been here, and 
what I had done; and when John 
Smith had heard it all, he was like one 
struck dumb, and he sat in deep 
thought for quite a long time, and 
then he said he could not help think 
how strange it was that I had been 
cast here on this lone isle, and that 
while I had been kept here so long, 
and could not tell why, how through 
me the lives of all the men here were 
safe, and that we ought all to bless 
God, who had shown so much love 
to us, and that this should teach us 
at all times to trust Him. 


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Chapter XIV. 

We knew that the rest of the crew 
would soon come to find the first 
ones, and that we must in some way 
get the best of them. I thought 
the best. thing to do was to bring 
the boat up close on shore, take out 
what things there were left in her, 
and stave her in, and then wait to 
see how we could get the ship. 

We all went down and broke a 
large hole in the boat, and drew it 
up quite high on the sand, and what 
few things there were in it I gave 
to Friday to take to our tent. While 
we were at work we heard a gun 
fire. It came from the ship, and 
was a sign for the men to come 


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back ; but when the men on the 
ship found the boat did not move, 
they let down a small boat, and ten 
men got in it and came to the shore. 
When we saw them get in the boat, 
we went up and hid back of some 
trees till they came on the land. 
John S. said that three of these men 
were as bad as the two we had shot, 
and if we could shoot them we had 
naught to fear from the rest, and 
there was but one more bad one left 
on the ship. He was the head one; 
but when he saw that he had no one 
to help him, he would have to give 
in ; and he thought it would not do 
to kill these men, for we would need 
them on the ship. 

When the men came up to where 
the boat lay, and saw that there was 


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no one in it, three of them went up 
and down the shore, and sent up 
loud yells to make their friends hear; 
but as this did not seem to do, they 
all but one (whom they left to watch 
the boat) came on shore, and went 
off to the south side of the isle, and 
had a long talk. They came back in 
a short time, and we thought they 
would all go off to the ship, and we 
would lose them and the ship; so 
I sent Friday and the mate down 
a short way and told them to call, 
which they did, and the men ran 
up and down, to hear where the 
noise came from. I told Friday 
and the mate to creep close to the 
ground in one way, and John S. and 
I went round on the side near the 
creek. In this way we could see. 


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and then, when I gave the word, 
we could all fire at once. 

In a short time three of the men 
came close up to us, and at a sign 
from me Friday and the mate shot 
at them. One fell dead, the next 
was hurt, and the third cried out, 
“ Who are you ?” The mate said : 
“ I am the mate, and you must yield, 
or you are all dead men.” 

He said : “To whom must we 
yield ?” 

“To John S. H e is here with 
the King and five score men, and 
if you do not yield you are all lost.” 

The rest of the men had come 
up, and as it was so near dark, 
they could not see us ; and when 
they heard the mate say this they 
laid down their arms, and in a 


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short time they were bound hand 
and foot, and Friday and Jack took 
them to the cave, where Friday kept 
watch all night. 

The next morn John S. went to 
them, and he told them that he had 
come from the King, and it was his 
will that they should all stay there 
till they could make up their minds 
to give up and do what was right, 
and go back to the ship, and do just 
as he bid them. All but two of 
them said they would be glad to do 
all this. He told them he would go 
and tell the King. 

We thought it best to keep them 
there for a few days, and gave Friday 
charge of them, and he took them 
food and drink three times a day. 

John S. and the mate went to the 


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ship in the small boat the men came 
in; and when they got to the ship 
there were but three men on the 
deck, and one of them was the man 
who had been the head of the gang. 
John S. and the mate soon put him 
out of the way, and the rest of the 
men were glad to be free, for they 
did not wish to harm John S., but 
fear of the bad men had made them 
act as they did. They said they 
would work for him, and help him 
to take the ship home. They then 
went down in the ship, and when 
they had put things to rights in her, 
they brought her up to the isle. 

When she came up to the shore I 
was up on the top of the hill, and 
John S. came up to me and said: 
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for she is all yours, we are yours, 
and all that is in her is yours.” 

This was too much for me, and 
I was like one that was dumb, 
and I sank faint to the ground. 
John S. took me by the hand to lift 
me up, and gave me a drink of wine 
that he had in a flask he had brought 
from the ship; and though this gave 
me some strength, still I could not 
speak for a long time. I shed tears 
of joy. There was the ship, her 
sails set, and her flags thrown out to 
the wind, and I could now go home. 
I gave my friend a hug and told him 
I would go with him, for I felt that 
he had been sent to me from God. 

We went down on board of the 
ship, and John S. gave me a whole 
suit of clothes, which I put on. I 


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felt strange, and could scarce get 
round in them. I thought of poor 
Friday the first time he had his 
clothes on. John S. thought we 
ought to go right off, but I told him 
we ought to see to the men that 
were bound in the cave. We did 
not like to trust them to go back 
with us, and as they had not seen 
me, I went to them and told them 
I had come from the King, and he 
had said that I might set them free 
if they would swear they would stay 
on the isle and work the land, for if 
they went back with us they would 
all be hung for what they had done 
on the ship. I set them all free, and 
told them how they might live, and 
how I had done, and I gave them 
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told Frank I would send him some 
men from his own land as soon 
as I could. 

I took Friday, one of my polls, 
my goat skin cap and coat, with all 
the gold I had laid by so long, and 
went on board the ship; and the 
next day, when I had bid all good 
bye, we set sail for home. 

H ome ! what a sweet word. I 
had been on the isle a score and 
eight years, and to whose love and 
care did I owe all, my life and health, 
these friends, with the way and 
means to get home to my own land? 
It was on this isle that I had been 
brought to know God, and my heart 
rose in praise to Him, and I knelt 
down to thank Him for all He had 
done for me. 


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We had fair winds and a good 
time most of the way to Hull, for it 
was from here that John S. had 
brought the ship, and he thought he 
ought to take it back to the same 
place ; and I was glad to come 
here, for it was near my old home, 
and I had now as great a wish to get 
back there, as I had to leave it when 
I was a boy. 

When I went to my old home in 
York, what a change I found there! 
It is true, there was the stream, 
and the house stood there still, 
and the farm was the same, but my 
dear friends were all gone, and the 
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in the yard back of the old church 
were all that was left to tell me the 
sad news of when and where they 
were gone. They had thought me 
dead for years, so they left all their 
wealth to some friends who were 
near of kin. 

As I did not care to claim it, and 
had no cause to stay here, I thought 
I would go down and see the men I 
had left my farm with, and see what 
they had done. 

And now I had a piece of good 
luck which I did not look for. John 
Smith told the men whose ship he 
had, what I had done to save his 
life, and how I took care of him on 
the isle; and they made up a large 
purse of gold and gave it to me; and 
this, with the gold I had brought 


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from the isle, made quite a large 
sum. 

I set sail for the south as soon as 
I found a ship that went that way. 
When I got to my farm I found that 
Wells, the man who had bought the 
farm with me, was dead, and the rest 
of the men whom I left in charge, 
had made up their minds that I too 
was dead, for they had not heard 
from me; and as they did not wish 
to stay there, they had sold my farm 
and gave one third the price to the 
King, and two thirds to some good 
men near by, whose work it was to 
teach the dark souls that were all 
round, to love and pray to God. 

I then went to hunt up the man 
who took me to sea the first time. 
I found him grown to be quite old, 


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and at first he did not know me; I 
told him of my first trip to sea, and 
this brought me to his mind. 

He was quite glad to see me, and 
told me how and where he had been 
since he left me. He said his son 
had charge of a ship, and was not at 
home, but that he would do all he 
could to help me. He thought I 
ought to stay in my own land, and 
take my gold and buy a farm. He 
said, he thought I could get a good 
price for a piece of land that I had 
near my old farm, and he wrote to 
a friend of his to sell it for me, which 
he did, and I was paid such a large 
sum for it, that with all the rest I 
had I was quite rich. So, I thought 
I would seek a place to live in, but 
my old wish to roam came on, so I 


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thought I would see some more of 
the world, and I went to France, 
and from there to Spain. Of course, 
Friday went all round with me, and 
the poor man did not know what to 
make of all the new and strange 
things he saw. He did not know 
why it should be so cold on the top 
of the high hills, nor where the snow 
came from. 

One day we met four men, and 
they said they would like to join us 
and go round with us, so we took a 
guide, and for four weeks they were 
with us. 

We came to a wild spot one day, 
and Friday had a great deal of fun 
with some bears that we found there. 
He made us all laugh to see him 
climb up a tree and shake hands 


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with an old bear that was on a large 
limb. We shot some of the bears 
and took their skins with us. Friday 
was full of life and fun, and did all 
he could to make it bright for us, 
and was of great use to us at all 
times. The men were quite fond of 
him, and when they left us they 
made him a nice gift. 

When I had gone round for some 
months, I went back to the land of 
my birth, and there I met a fine 
young girl whom I made my wife. 

I bought a large farm with a good 
house on it, and for some years 
dwelt there in rest and peace. I 
was rich, and had no need to work 
hard. In time I had two sons, and 
I found my spare hours could be 
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them to work on the farm, and I felt 
the truth of some lines I had once 
read: 

“ Free from vice, free from care, 

Age has no pain, and youth no snare. ” 

■ But right in the midst of all this 
joy, there came a great blow to me, 
and this was the death of my good 
wife. 

It is not my place here to say too 
much in praise of her. She was full 
of love for me, and had a kind heart 
for all; she had a sound mind, and 
was to me like a bright star to lead 
me in the right way. 

H er loss was so great to me, and 
my home was now so sad, that I 
could not stay there in peace ; each 
turn I made brought my wife to my 
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In a few months from the time I 
lost my wife, the son of a near friend 
of mine came to me, and told me he 
would like to go to sea if I would go 
with him. I had a great wish to go 
back to the lone isle where I had 
been so long. I told him if he 
would take me there I would be 
glad to go to sea with him. This he 
said he would do, and went off to get 
a ship and crew. 

While he was gone, I sold* my 
farm and made my will. I gave to 
each of my sons a share of my wealth, 
and put them in the care of the wife 
of my old friend, who had been so 
good to me when I was a young 
man. 

One bright day in the first of the 
year 1693, Friday and I set sail 


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with my young friend for our old 
home on the isle. 

When we had been out for some 
weeks, one dark night one of the 
men came to me, and said he saw a 
great light a long way off. I took 
up my glass, but could see no signs of 
land, and thought it must be a ship 
in flames; so I told my friend who 
had the ship in charge, that we must 
try to get up close to it, and in a half 
hour we could see that it was a large 
ship on fire. We told the men to 
hang out lights all round on our 
ship, and to fire off five guns, for a 
sign to them that we saw them and 
would come and help them. 

By da ylight the next morn, three 
large boats came up to us, full of those 
that had been on board of the ship. 


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They said the fire broke out down 
in the hold of the ship, from some 
sparks of fire from some of the 
pipes, which the men had to 
J smoke. 

It was a French ship, and the poor 
folks were all in a wild state. They 
had thought there was no hope for 
them, and when they saw our ship 
and felt that they were safe, and would 
not have to go down in the sea, they 
sent up shouts of joy, and wrung 
their hands, and some would sing 
and some would dance, while some 
could do naught but sit still and 
look at us. There was a young 
priest on board, and he went round 
to soothe them, and when all were 
calm, he made them all kneel down 
and thank God. 


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In a few days we met a ship that 
was on her way to France, and we 
put most of the poor folks on board, 
to go back to their own homes. The 
young priest, with a young man and 
a young girl, said they would like 
to go to the isle with me. 

In four months from the time we 
left my home, we came In sight of the 
Isle. I said to Friday, “ Do you 
know where you are ?” 

He said with a smile and a clap 
of his hands, “ Oh, yes, oh there !” 

“ Well, Friday, do you think we 
shall find the folks we left, and do 
you think we shall see poor old 
Jack?” 

He stood mute for some time, and 
then said, with tears In his eyes, 
“No, no, no see him more.” 


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“Why so?” said I, “how do you 
know that ?” 

“ Oh no,” says Friday, “ he long 
dead ; he much old man.” 

“ Well, Friday,” said I, “we shall 
see. 

When we came near to the shore, 
I told the mate to fire off three guns, 
and hang out a white flag of truce, 
so as to let those that were on the 
land know that we were friends; and 
then ‘I let down a small boat, and 
took the priest and Friday with some 
men, and we went up the creek which 
was near my old place. I told the 
men they must not go on shore till I 
gave the word ; but Friday caught 
sight of poor old Jack, and I could 
not keep him in the boat. He ran 
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both of his arms round him, and gave 
him a hug and a kiss, and then took 
him by the hand and made him sit 
down on the ground, so that he could 
talk to him. 

For a week he kept this up. He 
would fetch Jack some good thing 
to eat, and lead him up and down, 
like a girl, and would tell him all he 
had heard and seen since he had 
left him. I thought if all sons would 
act in this way, there would b*e no 
need for God’s fifth law. 


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Chapter XVI. 

While Friday was with Jack, I 
went on shore ; I saw my friend 
Frank on the top of the hill. He 
did not know me ; I went up to him 
and took off my hat, and said, “ Sir, 
do you not' know me ?” He gave 
his gun to a man who stood near, 
and came up to me, and threw his 
arms round me, and gave me a hug. 
He said he was glad to see me; that 
he had thought a good deal of me, 
but as he had not heard from me 
for so long a time, he had made up 
his mind that he should see me no 
more. He then made a sign to 
the man who had his gun, and 
bade him go and call the men, 


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and told me to come up to my old 
place. 

I sent the men in the boat back 
to the ship, and took the priest and 
we went to my farm ; but I did not 
know it, the trees had grown up 
so thick round it, that it was like a 
dense woods, and they had built 
forts all round. I said, “ What are 
these forts for ?” 

Frank said, when he had told me 
all that he had gone through since I 
left him, I would see that he had 
great need of them. 

The man to whom he spoke when 
I first met him, now came back, with 
ten men, and Frank said, “There 
are some of the men who owe their 
lives to you.” In the dress they 
wore, it was hard work for me to 


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guess who they were, but Frank soon 
made it clear to both them and me, 
and they came up to greet me, one 
by one, not like plain men, but like 
men of rank would come to a King. 

We now went to my tent. Frank 
had built it out, and it was large and 
full of things Frank had made, such 
as chairs, stands, shelves, and two 
good beds. When we sat down 
Frank said he would tell me what 
hard work he had with some of the 
men. 

But first, I must tell you that 
when I left the isle, in the ship with 
John S., three of the men got off, 
and went back to the isle to seek 
those that were left there. Y ou know 
that two of those on the isle were the 
worst ones in the crew; and now 


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these two went with those who came 
back, and it was with these five bad 
men Frank had such a hard time. 
The rest were all right; they went to 
work to build huts and raise grain, 
and would mind Frank in all things. 

The rogues thought that these 
good men should keep them and 
work for them, for they did not like 
to work, and they did not want to 
live right, so the good men would 
not help them. This put the rogues 
in a rage, and they swore they would 
fix them; but the good men took this 
as a jest. One of the rogues said, 
“they will see if it is a jest;” and one 
day when some of the good men 
were off, one of the rogues took up 
a large stick that was on fire, and 
put it to the side of one of the huts. 


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and would have set it on fire, but 
one of the men thrust it one side, or 
else this hut with all the rest would 
have been burnt up. This led to 
a great fight, and the good men 
drove the rogues off to the north end 
of the isle, near where the wild men 
came for their feasts, and here they 
dug a sort of cave in a piece of 
woods to sleep in at night, but would 
be up to all sorts of bad deeds in the 
day time. 

They would steal the corn, and 
pull up the stalks, run off with the 
goats, and do all that they could to 
vex and tease the good men. One 
day three of the good men went 
down on the shore, and the rogues 
came at them and there was a great 
fight, which, when the rest of the 


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good men heard, they came down to 
help their friends, and they took the 
rogues to Frank; he took their arms 
from them, and said, “Why do you 
act in this way?” They said they 
could not live where they were. 
Frank told them if they would do 
no more harm, but be still and try to 
work, the good men would try to help 
them and they could live in peace, 
but they could not have their arms. 

For a while all went on in peace; 
the rogues would do some work, but 
this did not last long; they grew 
bold, and were soon at their old 
tricks once more. Frank thought he 
would have to put them in a boat 
and send them off; but a strange 
thing took place one night, which 
made them tame for a long time. 


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Frank had gone to bed in the tent, 
but he could not sleep; his mind was 
ill at ease; he said he felt as if there 
was a great weight on his mind, and 
thought he should hear some bad 
news. He thought that there might 
be a plot with the rogues to kill the 
good men; so he woke up the man 
who was with him, and told him how 
he felt, and he said, “Say you so? I 
think we should go out, and look 
round.” This man went up to the 
top of the hill, and came back with 
the word, that there was a great light 
not far off, and he heard men shout 
and yell as if there was a great fight. 
Frank then went and told the 
men, and they all went up the hill 
to watch. There were three sets 
of wild men, and they were all in 


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a fierce fight. The men thought 
they would like to . go down, but 
Frank said they must stay there, 
and he sent Jack down, to spy out 
why they came. He took off his 
clothes so as to be like one of them, 
and then went right down. He had 
been gone an hour, when he came 
back and said that there were two 
tribes, and that they were in a fierce 
fight, and would stay there till the 
light of day. 

Jack could scarce keep the men 
back. He told them there were 
scores of the wild men, and that they 
could do no good, but to let them 
fight it out; it would be the best way 
to get rid of them. 

They fought for three hours, and 
by this time it was quite light, and 


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then they got in the boats and went 
off. The men' went down to view 
the place, and they found more than 
a score of dead men, and three who 
were hurt, and these they took care 
of and kept them to work for them. 

When the rogues saw what work 
the wild men had made, and the burnt 
bones that lay strewn all round, it 
made them sick, and for some time 
they were quite mild, and would do 
just as Frank bid them, as well as 
their share of the work. 

One day one of the rogues got mad 
at one of the slaves, and took up his 
axe to kill him, when one of the good 
men went up to him, and told him 
to stop, which made the rogue mad, 
and he would have made short work 
of him, but some of the rest of the 


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good men came up to help him, and 
then the rogues came to join their 
friend, and there was quite a fight, 
which Frank had to stop. 

Frank now saw that it was of no 
use to try and keep the bad men 
with the good ones, and that it would 
be best for them to go some where 
else, and so he gave some corn, rice, 
grain, and clothes, with some tools 
to work with (for he said it would 
not be right to let them starve), and 
sent them off to one end of the 
isle. He told them if they came 
near his men, to hurt them, to 
steal their flocks, or to spoil or 
burn their goods, he would put 
them to death. 

They went to the N. E. end of 
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set out some young trees, like those 
that were round my large tent, and 
for six months all went well with 
them; but this could not last; they 
would not work, and one day they 
took a whim to go to the place where 
the wild men came from, and see if 
they could not seize some, and bring 
them back to the isle and make 
slaves of them. They came to 
Frank and his men, and told them 
they would like a boat and some 
food and clothes to take with them. 
Frank’s men were so glad to get 
rid of them, that they gave them all 
these things, and some fire arms too, 
for they told them the wild men 
would try to kill them, and they 
must have some arms to keep them 
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and thought they should see no 
more of them. 


Chapter XVII. 

But, in three weeks, they came 
back. They said they went first to 
the main land, but the men that 
were there would not let them come 
on shore ; so they went on, till they 
came to an isle which lay to the 
west of the main land. Here they 
met with a kind race of men, who 
said, “they did not eat men, nor 
fight if they could help it.” They 
went on shore, and gave the chief 
man some of the things they had, 
and he made his men bring them 
food, fish and fruit, and when they 


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came off, they brought down five 
girls and six men to take back as 
slaves. 

They did not know what to do 
with them all, but saw that they 
must take them, or the chief might 
get mad, and then he would hurt 
them ; so they gave the chief an 
axe, an old key and a knife, and 
he put them in their boat. 

When Frank and his men heard 
this, they went down to see the 
slaves, and found them all bound 
in one of the huts. The poor things 
were full of fear when they saw the 
men, for they thought they had 
come down to look at them, that 
they might pick out the best ones to 
kill; so Frank sent old Jack to tell 
them that they would not hurt them. 


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As Frank and his friends did not 
want the girls with them, the rogues 
said they would like to wed them; 
so they drew lots for them and each 
took a wife. This was a good thing 
for them all. The girls were true, 
smart and clean, and as the men now 
had some one to care for, they built 
huts and laid out farms, and in this 
way soon made their part of the isle 
look like a small town. 

The black men said they would 
work for the men, but as there was not 
much for them to do, and they did 
not watch them, one day one of them 
ran off to the woods. They thought 
he was dead, but in a few weeks, when 
they saw six boats full of black men 
come on shore, and go right to the 
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knew that he had gone home, and 
told his friends how and where to 
find them. 

The wild men went right to the 
woods, and when the white ones went 
to catch them, they found they had set 
on fire some of their huts, and they 
were all in flames. This made them 
rage, and they laid a plan to shoot 
them as they came out of the woods. 
So two of the white men got up in 
the trunk of a large tree that stood 
on the edge of the wood, and when 
they saw them, they took aim at 
them through a hole in the tree, 
and as they came out, in this way 
they shot near half a' score of them. 
The rest nowall ran out of the woods, 
and Frank and his men, who had 
come up to help the white men, shot 


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full two score more. They then 
bound most of the rest, and put 
them in their boats, and sent them 
back to their own land. 

There were a few who had a wish 
to stay with the white men and be 
their slaves, so they kept them. The 
men now went to look for their wives. 
They found them safe, but near all 
their huts were burnt down. They 
soon built these up, with the help of 
Frank’s men. 

For six months they saw no more 
of the wild men. 

But one day, just at dusk, some of 
the men saw a score of small boats 
come up on the east side of the isle, 
full of men, who had darts, bows, 
clubs and swords. They were a 
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fears, but they knew they could not 
do much that night. They thought 
they would make things as safe as 
they could. So they drove their 
goats and flocks to the old cave, took 
up most all their huts or tents, and 
sent their wives to my big tent, all 
but two, who would not go ; they 
said they could fight with bows, 
which they did, and were a great 
help to the men. 

Frank now took the men, and gave 
part of them to one of the rogues 
whose name was Will, and he took 
the rest in his charge. Will, though 
he had been a bad man, was bold, 
and just the one to head the men. 
They took all the arms they had, and 
went up as near the wild men as they 
could, and hid till the next morn. 


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When the sun was up quite high 
the wild men came in crowds to 
where our men were, when at a sign 
from Frank, they shot at them right 
and left. The foe were so close, that 
they fell dead-all round, and those 
that the men did not kill were hurt, 
and this put them in a great fright ; 
they flew to the woods as swift as 
they could, and here they set up 
loud cries and shouts. Frank told 
his men to let them be, for they would 
soon be so sore and stiff from their 
wounds, that it would not be a hard 
task to get the best of them ; so the 
men went down to the shore where 
the boats lay, and they took some 
dry wood from a dead tree and set 
most of their boats on fire. 

When the wild men saw this they 


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were so mad that they ran up and 
down the isle, and trod down the corn 
and tore up their vines and plants. 

A great storm came up that night, 
and as the boats were most all gone 
the wild men could not get off. Our 
men had to watch them all that night; 
and at the break of the next day, 
they found that a score of them were 
dead in the woods, and the rest were 
sick and hurt; so they sent old Jack 
to those that were left, and he told 
them that if they would give up to 
the white men they would save their 
lives, and be kind to them, and 
that they should live on a part of 
the isle, but that they must not come 
near the white men, but keep in 
their own bounds. This they were 
glad to do, and Frank gave them a 


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place way off on the south east end of 
the isle, and he gave them corn to 
plant, and they soon learnt to make 
all kinds of things with wood and 
corn, such as chairs, and stands, and 
beds. 

They were now down on the end 
of the isle where Frank had put them, 
and the white men did not see them 
for weeks at a time. And from that 
time, till I came to the isle, they had 
not seen or heard of a wild man. 

You must not think that Frank 
told me all this at once, as I have 
told it to you. When we went out 
to walk, he would show me the 
tents, and all that had been done and 
built on the isle, and in this way I 
found out what I have told you. I 
now saw why Frank had built the 


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forts I spoke of, to keep him and his 
friends safe from the bad white men, 
and the wild men. 


Chapter XVI 1 1. 

I had some long talks with Will 
and the rest of the rogues. They said 
they knew they had done wrong, but 
that now they had wives and good 
homes, if I would help them they 
would try and do right. I told them 
I would do all I could for them. 

One day I told all the men on 
the isle that they must come and 
dine with me. I got the ship’s cook 
and his mate to come on shore to 
dress my meal. We brought on 
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of pork, a punch bowl full of beer, 
and ten flasks of French wine. 
Frank gave us five whole kids to 
roast; we sent some of the fresh 
meat in a close dish, to the men on 
the ship, as they had not had fresh 
meat for a long while. We had a 
gay time at this feast, and when we 
were through, I took Will and his 
men down on board of the ship, and 
gave them some thin, loose, light 
coats, some shirts, and socks, and 
shoes, and some tools to work with, 
such as hoes, rakes, spades and 
knives, as well as some arms. For 
these they gave me great thanks, and 
said that as I had done so much for 
them, they should bear in mind all I 
had said to them, and that they 
would stay on the isle as long as I 


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bid them, and try at all times to do 
their best, and would live in peace 
with all the men on the isle. 

The young priest, who had gone 
all round the isle with me and knew 
all Frank had told me, said to me 
one day, that he would like to stay 
on the isle, and he thought the 
young men and the young girl who 
were on the ship would like to do 
the same, as they could do a great 
deal of good to these poor men and 
their wives. He thought that he 
ought to preach the word of God to 
them, for the most of them would, 
no doubt, have to end their days 
here. 

I was glad to hear him say this, 
and told him I thought it was a good 
plan. I went to the ship and 


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brought the young folks on shore, 
and with them a young man, that 
we gave the name of Jack-of-all- 
trades to, as he could do all sorts of 
things, and was of so much use to 
us on the ship. I found in my room 
five or six books of Gods Word, and 
all but one of these I gave to the 
priest, and that one I gave to Will, 
and told him I would like him to 
read it night and morn, which he 
said he would do. 

One day the young man came to 
me and said with a shy look, that as 
we had a priest, there were two 
young folks that would like to wed. 
I thought it was the maid and this 
young man; so I told him to think 
well of it, for the maid had not been 
brought up as he had, and was not 


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of the same rank with him, and that 
at some time he might feel bad, and 
wish to get rid of her; but he said 
with a smile, he was not the man, it 
was the maid and Jack-of-all-trades. 
I told him I was glad of this, for I 
thought Jack was a smart, true man, 
and the maid a good girl, and she 
could do a great deal to help and 
teach the rest of the poor girls on 
the isle. 

The priest said he had one thing 
to ask of me, and that was, that he 
might keep Friday with him, as he 
could do so much to help him learn 
the speech of the black men that 
were there, and could teach them to 
know and pray to God as he did. 

I told the priest that I felt what 
he said was true, but that Friday had 


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been so long with me, and was so 
true to me, that I could not part with 
him; and I told him once he should 
not leave me, and that if I did not 
take him with me now, he would 
think I was false to him, and he 
would die of grief. 

I had now been here for a month, 
and as all the men were at peace, I 
thought I would go back to the ship 
and sail round and see some more of 
the world. 

My ipind was in such a state, in 
fact had been so all my life, that I 
could not rest long in a place. So 
true it is that what is “born in the 
bones can not be beat out of the 
flesh.” I sent for the men to come 
and talk with me once more, and 
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quite a large farm to Jack-of-all- 
trades, and I told them they must 
try and live in peace and learn to 
love the Lord, and do all they could 
that was right, and when I got home 
I would send them some stock, such 
as cows, pigs, and sheep, as well as 
some goods for clothes. I then bid 
them all good bye, and set sail. 

It was the sixth of May, a clear 
bright day, we shot off five guns and 
the men on the shore did the same, 
and we were soon out of sight. 

When we had been out to sea 
three days, the mate came to me and 
said, “Sir, do you see that fleet?” I 
took out my glass, and saw that 
there were scores of small boats full 
of wild men. The men in the ship 
were full of fear, and I must say that 


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I felt there were so few of us, 
that they might do us a great deal 
of harm, but I told the men to take 
their arms and to fix them, then to 
get out the small boats and man 
them, and to furl all the sails, and we 
would lay by and wait for them to 
come, and we could fire on them. I 
thought they might try to fire our 
ship, so I told the men not to let 
them come too near. 

They came quite fast, and In a 
short time were quite close to us. I 
told Friday to go on deck and call to 
them, and ask them what they meant. 
He did so, but as soon as they 
heard him speak, they took aim at 
him. Friday said with a loud voice 
“They will shoot,” and just then they 
sent out full three score darts ; three 


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of them struck poor Friday, and he 
fell dead. 

When I saw poor Friday fall, I 
was so mad and full of ra^e, that I 
dold my men to load four guns with 
large shot and five with small, and 
to give them such a blast of fire as 
they had not seen or heard in their 
lives. I can not tell how they were 
hurt; we knew that we had shot 
some of them, for we saw them sink, 
and most of their boats were split or 
sunk; but they did not seem to mind 
this, for they were in such a great 
fright and haste to get off, that those 
who could swim did so, and the rest 
took the good boats and went off as 
fast as they could, and in less than 
three hours we could not see a sign 
of them. 


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There was one poor man who 
could not swim, so our men took him 
on the ship. He was hurt and could 
not speak for some time, and for a 
long while he did not want to eat;‘ 
but we taught him a few words of 
our own tongue, and then he told us, 
that the day we saw the wild men, 
there were five tribes, and they were 
out with their kings to have a great 
fight, and that when his king saw 
our ship, he said they must come up 
to it and fight there, so as to let us 
see them, for they thought it would 
be a grand sight, but the noise and 
fire from our guns were so great, 
that it gave them such a fright, they 
were glad to get out of our way as 
quick as they could. 

Poor Friday! I must now take my 


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last leave of him. My heart was 
sad and full of grief when I thought 
of his love, how true and kind he 
had been, and now he was gone, and 
how I should miss him. 


Chapter XIX. 

I had a box made, and we put 
him in it, and let him down in the 
sea, and the men shot off ten guns 
as he went down. 

We now went on our way. We 
had fair winds and a smooth sea, 
and in two weeks we came to All 
Saints Bay. Here I had a sloop 
made, on which I put a crew of eight 
men with their wives. I bought a 
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these, with three cows, five calves, a 
score of hogs, two sheep, a horse and 
two mares, I put on board the sloop, 
and sent them all to my friends on 
the isle, as I had told them I would 
do when I left them. I told the 
mate how to go there, and I heard 
that the sloop and all on board went 
there safe and sound, and the things 
were such a great help to them, that 
in a few years I would not have 
known the old isle. 

And now I shall take leave of my 
isle. I had done all I could for those 
that were there, and if they did not 
want to stay they could go where 
they had a wish to, for they had the 
sloop and some small boats, as well 
as the large boat Friday and I had 
made; but as I have said, I heard 


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that all went well with them, and I 
thank God, that I have had the 
chance to do some good in my life. 

We went from All Saints Bay to 
the Cape of Good Hope. We did 
not stay here long. There did not 
seem to be much to be done or seen 
here ; so we laid in a stock of 
some things we were in need of, and 
went to a large isle, which lies north 
east of the Cape. We put our ship 
in port on the east side of the isle, 
and I, with some of the men, got 
in a small boat and went on shore. 
We saw that the folks who dwelt here 
were kind, and we thought we could 
do well here. 

The men came down to look at 
us, and when we saw them, we cut 
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each of them at just such a space, 
and they did the same, for this was 
a mark with them of a sort of truce, 
and that we could trade with them, 
but we must not pass their poles or 
sticks, nor take our arms with us, 
and they must do the same, and we 
must all buy and sell by these sticks. 
They brought us milk, roots, fish 
and meat, and were glad to take 
knives and such small things as we 
had to give them. 

The first night we were here, some 
of the men thought they would stay 
on shore all night; so they made a 
small hut to sleep in, and I went 
with a man and a boy in the boat. 
At two o’clock the next morn I 
heard one of the men on shore call 
for help, and then I heard a gun. I 


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woke up the man who was with me 
(and told the boy to watch the boat), 
and we took all the arms we had 
with us and went on shore to help 
them. 

There were but nine of us and 
there were scores of the foe ; they 
sent their darts at us, and we shot 
off our guns; we knew that we had 
hurt some of them from the cries we 
heard, but it was too dark for us to 
see well. Our men came in the 
boat, and we put up boards and 
chests and stood back of them, and 
then we made signs to the ship to 
come to us, and the man in charge 
brought her up, and we all kept 
watch till it was light, when the men 
from the ship came on shore and we 
sent them such fierce fire, from our 


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large and small guns, that they fled 
to the woods in a short time. 

We found the cause of the fight to 
be the fault of one of our men; he 
had said some rude things to one of 
the girls who came to bring them 
milk, which she did not like, and she 
told some of her friends, and they 
all came down to beat him for it. 
This man’s name was Tom; he was 
not to be found with our men, and 
though we kept on the look out for 
him for two days, he did not come, 
and we made up our mind that he 
was dead. 

Some of the ’men said they would 
go and look for him, but this I did 
not want them to do. I told them 
they might share the fate that Tom 
had, but they would not heed, and 


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eight of them went off, while the rest 
went on the ship, and I took two 
men and a boy and went to the boat. 

When our men went off they did 
not mean to harm their foes, but see 
if they could find Tom, and at the 
same time look for gold. They 
.went on for a mile and saw no one, 
and thought they must have gone 
the wrong way, when they saw a 
cow by a tree, and then they knew 
that some one must live near, and in 
a short time, they came to a small 
town, and the first sight here that 
met their eyes was poor Tom. They 
had hung him to a tree by one arm, 
and then cut his throat. 

This made them so mad, that they 
swore they would kill all their foes 
and fire the town. The huts were all 


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small but one, and most of the foe 
were in the large one. Our men 
went to work as still as they could, 
and in a short time the large house 
and some of the small huts were in 
a blaze. This made the foe run out 
on all sides with sharp yells of fright, 
and our men shot them as if they . 
were mad dogs. 

We heard the noise and saw the 
light, and I said to the men who 
were with me in the boat, we must 
get help from the ship, and go and 
see what this means. The men from 
the ship came with us, and the light 
from the fire was so great that we 
found our way to the town ; and what 
a sight there was here! the dead foes 
lay all round, the huts were in flames, 
and our men were more like wild 


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beasts than men. I was like one that 
had been struck dumb with fright. 
When they saw us, they came up to 
us and one of them said, “I am so 
glad you have come, but we are not 
half done yet.” 

At this, I said, with a loud voice, 
“Wretch! what are you at? What 
does this mean? If you do not stop, 
I will shoot you down like a dog.” 

“Why, sir,” said he, “if you want 
to know why we have done this, 
come here;” and he led me to where 
poor Tom hung. 

I told him that Tom had done 
wrong, and the black men were not 
to blame; that he would do the same 
if he had the same cause; but this 
did no good, and when the rest of 
the men came up, and saw Tom, 


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they were just as bad. They said this 
man was right, and they would kill 
all the men they could find. 

As I could not stop them, I went 
off; and the thought of that day’s 
work made me sad for a long time, 
for I felt that God’s wrath must be 
on our men. 

The next day we set sail, and for 
a few weeks all went well. One day 
we had to stop at a small town on 
the coast to get some food, and I 
thought I would go on shore and 
look round to see what kind of a 
place it was. 

While I was gone the men on the 
ship had a talk, and they told the 
man in charge that I must not come 
back on the ship, for they were mad 
at what I said to them on the 


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isle. They said I had no right to 
scold them, and they did not like 
me, and that he must leave me on 
shore. He told them that he could 
not do this; that I had a large share 
in the ship, and he must take me 
with him. But they would not hear 
a word of this ; they said they would 
“one and all” leave the ship, and he 
could run the boat. So he had to 
come on shore to me, and when he 
told me all they had said, I thought, 
for his sake, I would stay, for if these 
men left him, I did not see where he 
was to get a crew from ; so I told 
him to send me all the things that 
were in my room on the ship, and 
to send me some gold as soon as he 
could. 

The next morn he sent me my 


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goods, and with them his own man 
to wait on me. And now, once 
more, I was left in a strange land. 
But I found the men here were kind, 
and full of good will, and that ships 
came by two or three times a week; 
there were some folks here from my 
own land, and with one of these I 
got good board for me and my man. 


Chapter XX. 

I was in this place nine months, 
and made some warm friends. I 
bought some fine gems, and some 
drugs, as well as some goods which 
I thought would be good to trade. 

There was a man in the same 
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we were to hire a ship, and take our 
goods to a land that was not far off, 
we could do well; for, said he, “Why 
should we stand still here? there are 
no drones in the world but men, and 
why should we be of that class?” 

It took us some time to get a ship 
to our minds, and we had hard work 
to pick up a crew, but we found some 
Dutch men who said they would go; 
we put all our goods on board, and 
set sail. 

On our way out, we found the 
ship was an old and poor one, and 
that we should have to stop and fix 
it; so we put in port at a large place, 
and I told the mate, as we would 
have to wait for a few days, I would 
go on shore and see if I could find 
some goods we could take with us. 


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I found here some ships and men 
from my own land, and some from 
the East. I saw, too, there were some 
fine goods and fruits which I knew 
would be of great use to us, and I 
thought I would lay in a large stock, 
so went each day to buy some. 

One day the man of whom I had 
bought most of my goods, said to 
me, “ I think it would be best for 
you to leave here as soon as you can, 
for there are some men here who say 
they will burn your ship and hang 
you.” “Hang me! what for?” 
“Well, they have heard some strange 
things, and I thought I would tell 
you, and warn you in time.” 

For a long while I could not speak; 
for I did not know how they could 
hear of me, as this was the first time 


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in my life I had been there, but I 
gave him my thanks and went right 
on board the ship, and told the mate 
what I had heard; and he said he 
thought the ship was all right now, 
and we could set sail that day. 

There was quite a strong breeze, 
and it was not long when we were 
some way out to sea, and by night 
we thought we were out of their 
reach, but the next morn I was 
down in one of the rooms of the ship, 
when one of the men put his head 
in the door and said, there were five 
boats full of men in full chase for us. 

I went up and saw the mate, and 
we brought all the men up on deck, 
and told them we thought these men 
meant to seize our ship and take and 
hang us all. I said to them, “ Will 


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you stand by us?” and they all said 
they would live or die with us. Our 
mate said he thought the best way 
was to keep them off with our great 
shot as long as we could, and then 
to fire on them with our small arms, 
and we must try to keep them down 
off the deck of the ship. 

When they were most up to us, 
we hung out a white flag, but, as they 
would not heed this, we took it in and 
hung out a red one, to show them 
we would fight for our lives, and then 
we sent them such a good round 
of great shot that they kept off for 
some time, and when they came up 
once more, we sent such a blast of 
fire from five of our great guns, that 
it took off the stern of one of their 
boats, so that it soon sank; and the 


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men who had charge of our guns 
kept up the fire for a long while, 
which hurt them and their boats so 
much they were glad to give up and 
let us go. 

There were two men who were 
hurt so that they could not swim, 
and they were in the sea so close to 
our ship that we took them in. One 
of these men was a Dutch man, and 
he told us the cause of all this was 
that the man of whom we had bought 
the ship was in port with us, and he 
had told the men there we were a 
bad set of men; that we went up and 
down on the sea to rob ships, and that 
we had stole the ship we had. This 
made them so mad they made up 
their minds to come and take us 
and the ship to the land, and hang 


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US all, and not wait to hear the 
truth. 

We could not make out what this 
meant, but when we came to ask 
more of this man, we found the man 
we had bought our ship from was a 
thief, and that he was on board of the 
ship with this Dutch man, and that 
he would not mind the men in 
charge of the ship, and one day he 
got mad and shot the head man, and 
got some more of the men to join 
him, and they ran off with the ship, 
and took it to the place where we 
first saw him, and sold it to us, and 
in some way he came to this last 
place, and when he saw us he thought 
he might be found out, so had told 
this, a lie, to the men, and then said 
to this Dutch man if he told the 


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truth he would kill him ; but we had 
been so brave that they could not 
stand our fire arms, and so had left 
us. 

All went on well for some days, 
when we found that our ship had 
sprung a leak, way down on one 
side. We did not know what to do. 
We must fix it, or it would go down; 
and we did not want to go on 
shore, for we did not know what 
foe we might meet. 

I told the men to let down our 
small boat, and all that could must 
get in, while the rest took in the 
sails of the ship ; and they took all 
the things of great weight and put 
them in on one side, and then lay 
her up as high as they could on 
the beach; and when they had made 


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a sort of stage to stand on, they 
went to work to stop ^up the leak 
and to tar the side of the ship. 
There were five of us in the small 
boat, and the rest of the men were 
at work on the side of the ship, 
and we 'were but a short way from 
the land. 

The men who dwelt there did not 
know what to make of our ship, and 
as they saw just a few men they 
thought it would be a good chance 
to come down and take our goods; 
and what few men they saw, they 
could make slaves of, or sell to their 
king; so they got out some small 
boats, and put eight or ten men in 
each, and they came up to where we 
were. 

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do, I told the men to let the stage 
slip down in the sea, and we all went 
up on deck as soon as we could ; 
and when they came quite close to 
us, two or three of them thought 
they would try and climb up the side 
of the ship. One of our men stood 
near the hot pitch pot, and he took 
up a great spoon full, and threw it 
on them, which soon sent them down 
with a cry of pain. . “ Well done. 
Jack,” said one of the men, “give 
them some more,” which he did, for 
he took up the spoon and sent out 
the hot stuff to the right and left, on 
all sides. 

This they could not stand long, for 
they went off with cries and howls 
of pain, which we heard for some 
time. 


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We then went on with our work, 
and, in a day or so, the ship was all 
right, and we went on our way. We 
did not stop, but went straight north, 
and in less than a month we came to 
the land (as those who live there call 
it) of the Sun. 

We went from port to port; in one 
place we would sell our goods, and 
in the next we would buy more. I 
thought I would like to see more of 
this land, than I could do in a ship; 
so when we came to the port of one 
of their large towns, we sold our ship 
and took our goods, and went on 
shore. Here we met some men who 
were on their way to the chief town 
in the land, where there was to be 
a great fair, and they said they would 
like us to join them. 


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One of the men was a Scot; he 
had been here for a long time, and 
knew all their ways, and he said he 
could show us the land and how to 
trade with the men. We said we 
would join them, and made the Scot 
our head or chief; we gave him part 
of our gold and told him to pay our 
bills, and to lead us at all times. We 
thought it best to take a guide too, 
and we soon found that we had need 
of both head and guide. 

I must tell you of the queer men 
who dwelt in this land. They were 
lio^ht and wore long loose coats like 
a blouse, and shoes that were made 
of wood; their hair, which was black, 
hung in long braids down their 
backs; they were smart, and made 
lots of fine goods, like fans, shawls. 


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silks, and dress goods. They did 
not know the true God, but had 
gods of their own, which they made 
of wood and stone, and they would 
take these gods with them from place 
to place. 

One day we saw one on the 
ground.; it was quite large and had 
horns; the sight of it made me sad, 
and I felt that I must tell them of 
our Lord. Our chief said they 
would not heed me; that they did 
not like strange men to go through 
their land, much less to talk of their 
gods, and they might get mad at me, 
and kill us all. But I still clung to 
the thought, and the more I saw of 
these things the more pain I felt, and 
I thought, “ how I would like to 
burn up all these gods.” In one 


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place we met a priest who had been 
there for some time, and I had a 
long talk with him. He said my zeal 
was all right, but it would do no 
good for me to treat their gods in 
this way or to say much to them; most 
of the men could not read or write, 
and that they would not know what 
we meant; they would, not like it, 
and, as my chief had said, would 
drive us all out. We must leave 
them to those who could be sent 
from our own land to teach them ; it 
would be slow work, for they must 
be made to feel and know that they 
were friends, and did not mean to 
harm them; we must pray for them 
and leave the rest to God. I saw 
he was right, and we went on; but 
I made up my mind that I would 


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do all I could when I got home to 
send them help. 

One day we came to a large town, 
and we thought we would stay here 
for a day or two; we found the chief 
work of the men here was to make 
a fine kind of ware, out of a sort of 
clay, which they have a great deal 
of; in fact, we did not see much else 
but pots, pans, cups, jars, and such 
like things. Our guide said he would 
like to show us a house all built of 
this kind of ware. 

I told him I would like to have it 
to take home with me, for I thought 
he meant a toy house. “Take it 
home!” he said with scorn, “why, 
there are near two score men in it.’” 

When I came to it I found that 
it was a large house built of laths. 


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and this ware put on them like tiles. 
The walls and floors were made of 
these tiles; some were blue and white, 
some were green, and some of a dark 
gray hue. There were ponds with 
gold fish in, and the walks in the 
yards were all made in this same 
odd way. 

Our guide did naught but brag of 
all the great things they could do ; 
and when we came to the Great 
Wall, which is built for miles and 
miles round, he said to me, ‘‘ What 
do. you think of that?” I told him 
it might do to keep out the men they 
stood in fear of, but if some of the 
men in my land were to come with 
their strong fire arms, they would 
knock it down in a short time. When 
he heard this he was mute for a Iona- 

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while, and he did not say much 
more of the might of his men. 

We now went to the chief town 
in the land, and it was full of men 
from all parts of the land, who had 
come with their goods to the great 
fair there. We bought a lot of fans, 
shawls, silks, and small toys and 
tea. Most of these I sent home to 
my friend, who sent me back a large 
sum of gold for them. 

One day our chief told us there 
was to be a great hunt that day, and 
he thought we would like to go. I 
said to him, “What kind of a hunt?” 
He said, “A sheep hunt,” This 
made us all laugh. The sheep are 
shy, but wild, and though swift, they 
will not run far, and as they keep 
close you are sure to get some. 


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While we were out we saw two 
score of those wild hordes who roam 
from place to place, to rob or kill all 
whom they may meet; and though 
they have no skill to fight, they do 
a great deal of harm. 

When they saw us they blew a 
kind of horn quite loud. This we 
knew was to call some of their 
friends, and in a short time a score 
more came up. 

One of our men said this was not 
the first time he had seen them, and 
he knew just how to deal with them. 
He told us we had no time to lose, 
and that we must form a line, and 
all fire at once when he gave the 
word. We did as he told us, and 
they let fly their darts, but none of 
us were hurt; there were five of them 


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shot, and the rest fled, and we saw 
no more of them. 

We went on for a month more, 
through the rest of this strange land, 
and saw much that was new as 
well as queer to us. 

As we had seen all we had a 
wish to in this land, we thought we 
would go to the North Sea, and in 
five months we were in a large town 
near the coast, but the snow was so 
great and it was so cold that I did 
not care to stay here long; so I went 
a few miles south. 

I found this land to be the place 
where they send the men who do 
not like or mind the Czar (as they 
call their king), and here I met some 
men of high rank, and a prince, who 
had been sent here, as they could 


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not make up their minds to think 
and do all that the Czar would ask 
them to. The prince was a fine 
man, full of good deeds and 
thoughts. 

I told these men my life on the isle, 
and of the men I had left there. 
They said they thought it a great 
and strange case, but that I had 
great cause for joy; I was lord of all 
while I was there, and could do as I 
had a wish, and that my men must 
love me, as I had shown them so 
much thought and care, which was 
more than the Czar had done for 
them. I could not keep the prince 
and his sad lot out of my mind, and 
I thought I would like to have him 
go to my own land with me. I said 
to him one day, “ I have been here a 


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long time, and think I ought to go 
home ; how would you like to go 
with me, if you could get off?” At 
first, he did not want me to talk to 
him of it, but when he had thought 
of it for a while, he said that he did 
not think he ought to go in that 
way, but if I would like to serve or 
aid him, I could take with me one 
that was near and dear to him, and 
that was his son. He did not like to 
see him kept here ; as he had done 
no wrong; he had been sent with 
him when a child, and had grown 
up here. 

The next day he sent for his son, 
who had been for some months with 
some friends not a great way off 
When I saw the young man my 
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SO like the prince, full of love and 
kind thoughts for all. 

He did not v/ant to leave the 
prince, but we made him see it was 
for his own good, and that he might 
do more for the prince if he went 
with me, than he could do there. 

The prince gave me a fine lot 
of skins and furs, and I gave him 
some of the goods I had brought 
with me, and in a month we left the 
place. 

We went through two or three 
new lands, and in one of them the 
young lord found some friends who 
said they could help the prince, if 
the young man would go to their 
court with them. Though I was 
loth to part with him, I felt it would 
not be right for me to keep him; so 


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I bade him “good bye,” and then 
went straight to my place of birth. 

I got back to my old home the 
first of the year 1705. And now I 
made up my mind to stay here. 

I had seen near all this world. 
God had been good to me through 
all. I had no one to blame for the 
ills of my life; I had brought them 
on by my self will. My days must 
now be few, for I had seen more 
than three score and ten years, and 
it was time for me to think of that 
world of peace and love where I 
soon must go. . 

My book of God’s Word, that I 
found on the ship, I had kept close 
by me through all these years; and 
now with that for my guide, I will 
wait God’s good time to cross that 


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sea, to the shore where all are at 
rest. And while I had to wait, I 
thought I would write this book, to 
show you, first, that if you would 
have joy and peace in this world, 
you must mind God’s fifth law, and 
next, that in all the ills and cares of 
life, you must seek God, learn to 
love and trust Him, and He will 
bring you safe home at last. 


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